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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la ropa" in Spanish?
lah RROH-pah — a rolled r to open, and the noun is singular in Spanish.
Two syllables: RO-pa, stressed on the first, which is the default placement for a vowel-final word. The word is uncountable and singular, so it takes singular verbs and adjectives even though it covers many garments — "la ropa está sucia", never "las ropas están".
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Lavo la ropa los sábados.
I wash the clothes on Saturdays.
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"Lavo la ropa los sábados" uses "los sábados" for every Saturday, with the plural article doing the work of English on. "Lavo" has a soft b sound for its v, and "sábados" carries an accent pulling its beat three syllables from the end.
Where English speakers slip
The opening r is where this falls down: an English one flattens the trill into a mumble, so roll it, or double-tap it while you learn. Roll it, or double-tap it while you learn. Grammatically, treating "ropa" as plural — "las ropas son bonitas" — is the classic error, since English clothes is plural and Spanish "ropa" is not. Say "la ropa es bonita" instead.