What is the Spanish word for butter? Someone told me it was "burro" but I thought that was a donkey.

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Sharon · F Best Comment

mantequilla

Burro is Italian for butter and Spanish for donkey.

BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@Sharon Thanks, Sharon. :)

Sharon · F

@BijouPleasurette De nada.

BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@Sharon :)

SomeMichGuy · M

Hmmm...feminine in Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan; masculine in French and Italian;
neuter in Romanian.

"Butter" is interesting with respect to grammatical gender!

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BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@SomeMichGuy Living creatures (dog, cat, horse, etc) have gender. Inanimate objects don't.

SomeMichGuy · M

@BijouPleasurette You just don't understand.

This is GRAMMATICAL gender, which exists in some languages, and has a link to real-world gender, but it's NOT the same.

Look it up.

It's real.

That's why English has he/she/it...a holdover from German's er/sie/es...

SomeMichGuy · M

@BijouPleasurette Here's a link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender

angela2106 · F

When I first went to Spain as an 18 year old student, I also though "Burro" was butter, but somehow although thought "mantequilla" was marmalade.

I caused hysterical laughter the first morning at breakfast.

BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@angela2106 I haven't been to Spain, I just wondered.

Nevertooold · 56-60, M

Manteca is the word for butter!!!

BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@Nevertooold Is it? Sharon says it's mantequilla. I've just Googled this and both seem to be right.

Nevertooold · 56-60, M

@Nevertooold Well...they both happen to be correct in this case:)

BijouPleasurette · 36-40, F

@Nevertooold I think I'd call it mantequilla, it's a nicer word. Lol :)

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