Polyglot Dictionary

ocupación

/okupaˈsjon/

la noun B1

el (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
las ocupaciones

Meaning

  1. occupation

    • ¿Cuál es tu ocupación?

      What is your occupation?

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

curro

Close, but a register difference — curro is informal (Spain) for "job," ocupación is the neutral/formal word.

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

ocupação

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

Practice

1 What does ocupación mean?

2 Fill the gap: ¿Cuál es tu ___?

3 Which fingerprint chart matches ocupación?

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