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Spanish Noun: Puerto, puerta

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Spanish Noun :P uerto, puerta

Pronunciation:pooayhr-toh, pooayr-tah

Translation:Port, door

Function:noun

Be ware of look-a-like’s in Spanish, sometimes they don’t mean the same thing: ‘puerto’ and ‘puerta’ may seem the same thing, only different in gender, but…
the first means «a place where ships load or unload» and the second is a «movable structure at the entrance of a room». There are other instances, as ”paja’ [straw] and ‘paje’ [page]

Example:Libro, libra

Translation:Book, pound

 

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