Ship – el barco
(Pronounced bahr-koh)
To remember that ship is pronounced bahr-koh (barco) in Spanish, use the following mnemonic:
They couldn't let him on to the ship because the barcode (barco) on his ticket was wrong.
Barco is masculine, so it’s el barco. Imagine an elephant being the captain of a ship:
Examples of barco (ship) in a sentence
El barco llegó al puerto esta mañana.
(The ship arrived at the port this morning.)
Quiero viajar en barco por el Mediterráneo.
(I want to travel by ship through the Mediterranean.)
El barco es muy grande y tiene cinco cubiertas.
(The ship is very large and has five decks.)
