vacías

Vacía is the feminine singular form of the Spanish adjective vacío, meaning empty, desocupado or devoid. Vacías is the feminine plural form, used to describe feminine plural nouns. For example: la botella vacía, las botellas vacías. The corresponding masculine forms are vacío (singular) and vacíos (plural).

In grammar, vacía and vacías agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. They can appear in predicate constructions with estar, as in Las cajas están vacías, or in attributive position, as in un argumento vacío. The term is used in literal senses (an object with no contents) and in figurative senses (promesas vacías, palabras vacías, una vida vacía).

Etymologically, vacía comes from the Latin vacuum meaning empty, related to other forms such as vaciar (to empty), vacío (the noun for emptiness) and vacíos (plural form of the noun when used in masculine contexts). The feminine plural vacías shares the same root and orthographic pattern, with an accent on the í to indicate stress.

Usage notes: vacía, vacías, like other colorless or negating descriptors, often appear in expressions that emphasize lack or minimal content, contrastive with lleno or completo. They function primarily as adjectives and do not normally serve as independent nouns; for nominal reference to emptiness, Spanish uses el vacío or los vacíos (when referring to multiple emptiness concepts).

See also: vacío, vaciar, lleno, desocupado.