invasión

/imbaˈsjon/ · B1 · noun · f

invasion

🪖 Latin in + vadere = to go in, uninvited

Almost the same as English invasion, and the accent sits on the -sión ending. Like other -sión nouns, it's feminine: la invasión. Spanish pronounces the nv as mb, so it sounds like eem-bah-SYON.

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