How to Say "Cemetery" in Spanish

cementerio

/θemenˈteɾjo/

The English phrase 'cemetery' is translated into Spanish as cementerio.

cementerio refers to a place where dead people are buried.

How does it change in a sentence?

The plural form of cementerio is cementerios.

/θemenˈteɾjo/

A common related action is Dejar flores en la tumba, which means to leave flowers at the grave.

In some traditional Latin American cementerios, families build small houses or ornate shrines over graves to make the site a living room for the dead.
The word cementerio is a linguistic oddity because it likely contains an accidental influence from the Spanish word cemento, meaning 'cement'.
Some historic cementerios in Spain and Latin America feature 'niches', which are wall-mounted shelving units for coffins due to limited ground space.

Erkin y yo fuimos al cementerio.
Erkin and I went to the cemetery.
This sentence shows the use of cementerio in the context of visiting the site.
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La funeraria está al lado del cementerio.
The funeral parlor is next to the cemetery.
This sentence uses cementerio to describe a location relative to a funeral parlor.
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La ceremonia tuvo lugar en el cementerio.
The services took place at the cemetery.
This sentence uses cementerio to describe where a ceremony took place.
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Mañana iremos al cementerio a visitar a nuestros seres queridos.
Tomorrow we will go to the cemetery to visit our loved ones.
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