violentas

Violentas is the feminine plural form of the Spanish adjective violenta, used to describe feminine plural nouns. It denotes that something is violent, aggressive, or intense. Common collocations include acciones violentas, situaciones violentas, protestas violentas, and mujeres violentas.

Grammatical background: violenta is the feminine singular form; violentas is the feminine plural form. The masculine equivalents are violento (singular) and violentos (plural). The word derives from Latin violentus, passing into Spanish through historical development of adjectives that agree in gender and number with the noun they modify.

Usage and scope: violentas covers physical violence or forms of force, but it can also describe intensity or aggression in non-physical contexts. This includes phenomena like tormentas violentas (violent storms), conductas violentas (violent conduct), or discursos violentos (violent rhetoric, where the masculine form is used to describe a masculine noun). In journalism, social science, and law, violentas frequently appear in phrases signaling harm or threat, and they can be intensified with adverbs or qualifiers such as claramente violentas or violencias graves in related phrases.

See also: violencia, violento, violentos, violento behavior and related terms in Spanish.