peatón

pedestrian

noun peh-ah-TOHN Rare

Usage Note

Peatón is the standard word for a person on foot in traffic or legal contexts — zona peatonal (pedestrian zone) is the adjective form. The written accent disappears in the plural peatones (peh-ah-TOH-nehs), since the stress falls on the penultimate syllable, a regular pattern for words ending in -ón.

Examples

"El peatón cruzó la calle en el semáforo."

Natural Translation

The pedestrian crossed the street at the traffic light.

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