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To this gender belong present participles derived from active verbs and used as nouns, such as el estudiante ('the male student'), la estudiante ('the female student'), el atacante ('the male attacker'), la atacante ('the female attacker'), el presidente ('the male president'), la presidente ('the female president'—although la presidenta is ...
Macarena (name) Magdalena (given name) Manuela (given name) Marcela; Margarita (given name) Maria (given name) María Alejandra; María de las Mercedes; María de Lourdes; María José; Maria Luisa; Mariana (given name) Mariela; Marina (given name) Marisa (given name) Marisela (name) Marisol; Marta (given name) Martina (given name) Maru (given ...
Some loanwords enter Spanish in their plural forms but are reanalyzed as singular nouns (e.g., the Italian plurals el confeti 'confetti', el espagueti 'spaghetti', and el ravioli 'ravioli'). These words then follow the typical morphological rules of Spanish, essentially double marking the plural (e.g., los confetis, los espaguetis, and los ...
For example, in Spanish, the masculine gender generally precedes the feminine, and the default form of address for a group of students is the masculine plural los estudiantes, regardless of the gender composition of the group. On the other hand, the feminine plural las estudiantes refers to a group consisting only of female students. [2]
The Basque-speaking territories (the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre) follow Spanish naming customs (given names + two family names, the two family names being usually the father's and the mother's). The given names are officially in one language or the other (Basque or Spanish), but often people use a translated or shortened version.
The first records of the term Latinx appear in the 21st century, [17] but there is no certainty as to its first occurrence. [22] According to Google Trends, it was first seen online in 2004, [10] [23] [24] and first appeared in academic literature around 2013 "in a Puerto Rican psychological periodical to challenge the gender binaries encoded in the Spanish language."
Spanish feminine given names (2 C, 210 P) M. Spanish masculine given names (2 C, 342 P) S. Spanish unisex given names (6 P) Pages in category "Spanish given names"
The naming customs of Hispanic America are similar to the Spanish naming customs practiced in Spain, with some modifications to the surname rules.Many Hispanophones in the countries of Spanish-speaking America have two given names, plus like in Spain, a paternal surname (primer apellido or apellido paterno) and a maternal surname (segundo apellido or apellido materno).