A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
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1. (general)
a. el caballo hembra
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
Female horses are called mares.Los caballos hembras se llaman yeguas.
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Much like English, Spanish has different words for male, female, and young horses. "Caballo" is the Spanish word for a male horse. Use "yegua" to describe a female horse. If you are talking about a foal, say "el potro" or "el potrillo."
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Call a male horse "caballo." Pronounce it like "ka-by-o" or "cabayo."[1] In Spanish, the double "l," "ll," is pronounced as "y." Caballo is an exclusively masculine word – so it is always "el caballo," and never "la caballo."[2]
- You can also say "garañón" to mean "stallion" or "stud." Pronounce it "ga-ran-yohn."
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Say "yegua" to refer to a mare. Pronounce it "yeg-wa." Use it specifically to talk about an adult female horse above the age of three.[3]
- Do not use "caballa" to describe a mare. A caballa is a type of fish!
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Use "el potro" to describe a foal. Pronounce it "po-tro." You can also say the diminutive form, "el potrillo," to refer to a very young horse.[4]
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Spanish is apparently like English in that there are a multitude of words for horses.
In English, we have "colt", "equine", "filly" (female), "horse", "mare" (female), "mount", "stallion" (male), and "steed".
In Spanish, I've found "caballo", "corcel", "equino", "montura", "padrillo" (male), "protranco", "potro", "semental" (male), and "yegua" (female).
The clearly gendered terms aside, my questions are:
(1) Which of the remaining terms allow gendered forms? Can I use "caballa"/"caballo", "equina"/"equino", "montura"/"monturo", etc?
(2) Which of the remaining terms allow gendered articles? Can I use "el caballo"/"la caballo", "el corcel"/"la corcel", "el equino"/"la equino", "el montura"/"la montura", etc?
If SpanishDict is any indication, "potra", "potranca", "potro", and "potranco" are all valid terms, so I guess they don't need any explanation; see //www.spanishdict.com/translate/potro and //www.spanishdict.com/translate/potranco.
I've seen indications that terms like "caballa" are never valid (to refer to a horse, not a fish) in any circumstance, however, and it's not clear to me whether I can still use "la caballo" if that's the case.