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animal

nounBeginnerHigh frequency

What does “animal” mean in English?

  1. animal

Example sentences

  • El perro es un animal doméstico.

    The dog is a domestic animal.

  • Hay muchos animales en el zoo.

    There are many animals at the zoo.

  • Me gustan los animales.

    I like animals.

How to use it

Animal means 'animal'. Masculine: el animal, los animales. The plural takes -es. Used as both a count noun and a generic category.

Common mistake

Plural is animales (with -es), not 'animals' or 'animales' without the e. Stress stays on the second-to-last syllable.

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Reference

This entry’s teaching guidance follows A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish (Butt, Benjamin & Moreira Rodríguez, Routledge), 1.