Polyglot Dictionary

hospital

/ospiˈtal/

el noun A1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain Medical Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
los hospitales

Meaning

  1. hospital

    • Lo llevaron al hospital.

      They took him to the hospital.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

enfermería

Enfermería is a small infirmary; hospital is the general, larger word.

Similar in other languages

French

hôpital

hôpital is the French word for the same thing — both mean "hospital."

Portuguese

hospital

hospital is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "hospital."

Practice

1 What does hospital mean?

2 Fill the gap: Lo llevaron al ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches hospital?

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