Mammoth Memory

Spectacles – las gafas

PRONUNCIATION

(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.

She broke her spectacles, but managed to fix them with gaffer tape.

Gafas is feminine and plural, so it's las gafas. Imagine that lasses make up the frame of a pair of spectacles.

Gafas is feminine and plural, so it's las gafas. Imagine that lasses make up the frame of a pair of spectacles.

 

 

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