extranjero
(Redirected from el extranjero)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
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.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “extranjero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014