Spectacles – las gafas
(Pronounced gah-fahs)
To remember that spectacles is pronounced gah-fahs (gafas) in Spanish, use the following mnemonic:
She broke her spectacles, but managed to fix them with gaffer (gafas) tape.
Gafas is feminine and plural, so it's las gafas. Imagine that lasses make up the frame of a pair of spectacles.
