Polyglot Dictionary

juez

/xwes/

el noun B1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain Legal Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
los jueces

Meaning

  1. judge

    • El juez dictó sentencia.

      The judge passed sentence.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

jurista

Worth distinguishing: jurista is any legal scholar; juez is specifically a judge.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

juiz

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

Practice

1 What does juez mean?

2 Fill the gap: El ___ dictó sentencia.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches juez?

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