cierto
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]cierto
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish cierto, from Latin certus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈθjeɾto/ [ˈθjeɾ.t̪o] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
- IPA(key): /ˈsjeɾto/ [ˈsjeɾ.t̪o] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -eɾto
- Syllabification: cier‧to
Adjective
[edit]cierto (feminine cierta, masculine plural ciertos, feminine plural ciertas)
- (of a person) true
- (of a claim) true
- Cierto o falso: la mayoría de los españoles son hispanohablantes.
- True or false: the majority of Spanish people are Spanish speakers.
- Es cierto que ambos tienen razón.
- It's true that both of them are right.
- 2025 March 25, AJ Willingham, “¿Qué significa el término "incel"?”, in CNN en Español[1]:
- “Estos comentarios tan preocupantes están imbuidos de sentimientos de que se tiene cierto derecho sexual, en los que los inceles puntúan más alto que los varones no inceles”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Determiner
[edit]cierto m sg (plural ciertos, feminine cierta, feminine plural ciertas)
- a certain, a specific
- Tiene cierta complejidad que no puedo explicar.
- It has a certain complexity that I can't explain.
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “cierto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “cierto”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA
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