In another blog post on Spanish nouns that can be masculine or feminine depending on meaning we look at cura.
You can listen to the pronunciation of cura in the audio clip below:
Q: So what’s the difference between un cura and una cura?
A: In its commonest meaning un cura (masculine) is a priest in the Roman Catholic Church:
Un cura le dio la absolución.
A priest gave him absolution.
Meanwhile una cura (feminine) is a cure or treatment:
Esto refuerza las esperanzas de hallar una cura a esta enfermedad.
This raises hopes of finding a cure for this disease.
Después de la cura, el paciente quedó perfectamente.
Following treatment, the patient was fine.
Remember to make any articles and adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they modify:
Es el único cura que lo recita en Latín.
He’s the only priest who says it in Latin.
los curas modernos
modern priests
las curas adelgazantes
slimming treatments
Why not come back next week for another in our series of posts on nouns whose gender varies according to meaning!
