habla
See also: hablá
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈabla/
Etymology 1
From Old Spanish fabla, from Latin fābula (“discourse”), from Proto-Italic *fāðlā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“speak”) + *-dʰleh₂. Compare fábula, a borrowed doublet.
Usage notes
- The feminine noun habla is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:
Related terms
- hablar (“to speak”)
Etymology 2
From the verb hablar
Verb
habla
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of hablar.
- Habla. — “He [or she] speaks.”
- (Usted) habla. — (formal singular) “(You) speak.”
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of hablar.
- ¡Habla! — (informal singular) The command, “Speak!”
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