cansadas

Cansadas is a feminine plural adjective in Spanish, formed as the feminine plural form of cansado (or can be used with feminine nouns as cansadas). It means tired or fatigued and is used to describe people, animals, or things that have become wearied, fatigued, or worn out. The corresponding masculine forms are cansado (singular) and cansados (plural), and the feminine singular form is cansada.

Etymology and formation: cansadas comes from the verb cansar, meaning to tire, whose past participle is cansado. The adjective agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies, following standard Spanish agreement rules. The word can also appear in non-literal, figurative senses to indicate exhaustion or burnout.

Usage notes: In everyday language, cansadas commonly accompanies nouns such as personas, piernas, días, o jornadas. It can function in predicate position with estar: "Estás cansada" or "Las caminatas dejaron a las piernas cansadas." In literary or rhetorical contexts, can be used as a nominal phrase to refer to a group in a stylized way, for example "las cansadas de la ciudad," though this usage is more poetic than common.

Synonyms and related terms: fatigosas, fatigadas, agotadas, extenuadas. The masculine and feminine variants are cansado/cansados and cansada/cansadas, respectively.

See also: canzar, cansar, fatigar. Common contexts include descriptions of physical tiredness, long workdays, or emotional burnout.