extranjero
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Relatinized from Old French estrangier. Adjectival cognate with English strange and French étrange (“strange, foreign”). Nominal cognate with English stranger and French étranger.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /eɡstɾanˈxeɾo/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ɾãŋˈxe.ɾo]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾo
- Syllabification: ex‧tran‧je‧ro
Adjective
[edit]extranjero (feminine extranjera, masculine plural extranjeros, feminine plural extranjeras)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]extranjero m (plural extranjeros, feminine extranjera, feminine plural extranjeras)
Noun
[edit]extranjero m (uncountable)
- (usually "el extranjero") A foreign country or countries, seen as a unit; abroad.
- Vamos al extranjero por primera vez.
- We're going abroad for the first time.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extranjero”, 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
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