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una

Spanish, pronoun

una is a Spanish feminine pronoun meaning “one (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine of uno. With a tilde, uña is a different word: “fingernail, toenail, nail”.

What does una mean in English?

pronoun

  1. 1

    feminineone (an indefinite plural pronoun using a singular feminine item, used for females)

noun

  1. 1

    femininefeminine of uno

    a la una, a las dos y a las tres

article

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of un

determiner

  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of uno

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

noun

as uña
  1. 1

    femininefingernail, toenail, nail

  2. 2

    feminineclaw, hoof, stinger

suffix

as -una
  1. 1

    femininefeminine singular of -uno

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Capa queratinosa (córnea) que recubre el extremo de los dedos del hombre y de algunos animales. Algunos felinos, como los gatos, tienen uñas retráctiles. 2. Utensilio para extraer puntas y clavos de distintas superficies, típicamente de la madera. Consta de una barra metálica larga en cuyos dos extremos hay practicada una curvatura, sobre la que se apalanca, después de encajar la cabeza del clavo que queda encajada en la uña que forma el extremo semejante a la pezuña de algunos animales. 3. Cierto molusco comestible.^([definición imprecisa]) 4. Punta de la cola del escorpión.

article: 1. Artículo indeterminado femenino singular..

suffix: 1. Forma del femenino de -uno.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of una

  • uno masculine
  • uñas plural
  • unas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to una

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is una in Spanish?

una appears 8,913 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).