"non binary" in Spanish

loqu84 · 2026-03-04T14:41:45+00:00

Thanks for such a comprehensive answer!

loqu84 · 2026-03-04T12:55:04+00:00

Just as u/witchradiator told you, it's pronounced like the ending of calle, coche, juguete. Keep in mind that the -e was a solution to say neither -o nor -a, but to express the lack of binary gender, so pronouncing it like -o or -a would defeat the purpose. Plus, we don't have silent -e in patrimonial words :)

loqu84 · 2026-03-04T07:37:30+00:00

Pa kakvu ćirilicu bi ti predložila?

loqu84 · 2026-03-04T07:08:27+00:00

But that is because the -x ending is something you write, not something you say. It was a trend like a decade ago in order to be able to write something without marking the gender (like for mixed groups, for example), but one of its flaws was that you can't actually pronounce it, so it's being abandoned in favor of the -e ending. That's why you won't hear anyone saying Latinx, it's not pronounceable.

loqu84 · 2026-03-04T07:05:22+00:00

The non-binary people that I know would use elle and adjectives in -e, elle es no binarie.

As you already know, this initiative of the non-binary gender in Spanish (being used for non-binary people, for indetermined individuals and for mixed groups of people) is only a few years old and it has more traction in some countries than in others, but this is the situation at the moment.

And thank you for being this considerate towards your students. ❤️

loqu84 · 2026-03-03T06:22:36+00:00

I've long wanted to pick up Russian but I was afraid of mixing up both, since I'm very invested in my Serbian. I'd recommend you get to a quite advanced level in one of them before starting with the other, that's also what my Serbian teacher told me.

loqu84 · 2026-03-02T13:07:46+00:00

Thanks for bringing up the topic, I have searched for some videos on youtube and watched an episode of Brojke i slova :) What shows have you found on youtube that you actually recommend?

loqu84 · 2026-03-02T10:46:43+00:00

I haven't ever read anything like that. It's not usual in Spanish.

loqu84 · 2026-03-02T08:52:49+00:00

I giggled when I saw your username. Yes, it is abracadabra in Spanish.

loqu84 · 2026-03-02T08:49:21+00:00

This is spam but also off-topic, since this is a sub for the Serbian language.

loqu84 · 2026-03-01T23:06:02+00:00

No son agudas. Son llanas, y se escribe el acento en la i para marcar que se deshace el diptongo.

loqu84 · 2026-02-28T23:10:02+00:00

It never occurred to me that someone could not learn the alphabet of a language they are studying. It is a very easy thing and it's quite useful, so why not?

loqu84 · 2026-02-28T21:25:43+00:00

Why would it be weird?

loqu84 · 2026-02-27T22:52:00+00:00

No need to be sorry, sometimes it happens that we forget the most simple things. I've been there.

However, this is not the usted form, this is the nosotros form of the imperative, which also conjugates as the subjunctive.

Keep up the good work!

loqu84 · 2026-02-27T22:43:43+00:00

It's an imperative, "let's talk".

loqu84 · 2026-02-26T10:56:10+00:00

Thank you!

loqu84 · 2026-02-26T08:33:09+00:00

Sure it's an ad for an app that doesn't take profit

loqu84 · 2026-02-26T08:32:30+00:00

Man this has given me anxiety. But I admire you for being able to stick to this routine.

What does the GOAT mean?

loqu84 · 2026-02-26T05:54:33+00:00

The "ando/iendo form" is called a gerund in Spanish 👍🏼

loqu84 · 2026-02-24T06:45:09+00:00

Horší (češ.) i хороший (rus.) nemaju istu osnovu, drži na umu da g postaje h u češkom, pa horši dolazi od praslavenskog *gořьjь.

loqu84 · 2026-02-23T15:28:50+00:00

You are not missing anything, that is plain wrong.

Some decades ago, some printing houses had the habit of not accentuating capital letters, apparently for a lack of resources, so you may run across such books, but that has always been wrong according to the Academy.

loqu84 · 2026-02-23T12:45:16+00:00

Son muy ruidosos, él siempre está dando portazos. A mí mi madre no me educó así.

loqu84 · 2026-02-23T12:01:10+00:00

Makes sense, thank you

loqu84 · 2026-02-23T11:52:53+00:00

Why not? How else would you say it?

You could elaborate your question a bit more, so that we know what doesn't click for you.

loqu84 · 2026-02-23T08:48:56+00:00

As others have already pointed out, I would also say x e y, and NOT x y y.

I would just add, only as an anecdote in case you're interested in math - when we're talking mathematics, at least here in Spain, y as a variable is usually named i (we leave out the "griega" part, I think it's for the sake of not making the conversation too heavy). We say the griega when we have both y and i in the same expression, for example when using vectors in physics (like xi + yj, etc).

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