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Spanish words
Small in Spanish
“Small” in Spanish is pequeño, or pequeña with a feminine noun. It's an adjective, pronounced /peˈke.ɲo/.
In a sentence
La pelota de la izquierda es muy pequeña.
The ball on the left is very small.
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Grammar note
Pequeño agrees with its noun: un perro pequeño, una pelota pequeña. In much of Latin America chico and chica also mean small.
How to remember it
The ñ is ny, so it's pe-KE-nyo. Picture the small tennis ball next to the big one, and say the word as you point at it.
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