cierto
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cierto
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish cierto, from Latin certus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθjeɾto/ [ˈθjeɾ.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsjeɾto/ [ˈsjeɾ.t̪o]
- 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.
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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɾto
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