Los puños de mi jersey están mojados porque lavé la taza.

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Breakdown of Los puños de mi jersey están mojados porque lavé la taza.

• mi: my
• estar: to be
• de: of

Questions & Answers about Los puños de mi jersey están mojados porque lavé la taza.

What does puños mean here? I thought puño meant fist.

That’s a very common question. Puño can mean fist, but in clothing it also means cuff: the end part of a sleeve around the wrist.

So in Los puños de mi jersey, puños means the cuffs of my jumper/sweater, not my fists.

For example:

• Me duelen los puños = My fists hurt
• Los puños de la camisa están sucios = The cuffs of the shirt are dirty

Why does it say jersey? Doesn’t that mean jersey in English?

In Spanish, especially in Spain, jersey usually means sweater or jumper, not a sports jersey.

So:

• un jersey = a sweater / jumper in Spain

This is a regional vocabulary point. In other Spanish-speaking countries, people might more often say:

• suéter
• sweater
• pulóver

But in Spain, jersey is very normal.

Why is it los puños and not las puños?

Because puño is a masculine noun.

• singular: el puño
• plural: los puños

Even though the thing being described is part of clothing, the gender depends on the noun itself, not on the object it belongs to.