"This flower is a type of rose."

Translation: Esta flor es un tipo de rosa.

[Chogas]

Why didn't "un tipo" change "una tipa" which is converted into feminine noun?

[snooker]

"tipo" does not have feminine genre. it can have plural "tipos de rosas". never say tipa, that is slang and means "weird girl"

[sdb614]

Why doesn't tipo=tipa? It ends with an O. How do you know which words that end with an 'o' can also end with an 'a?'

[gernt]

To me, it seems that most of the nouns that only differ in the final letter are wildly different in meaning. Like puerto, puerta or rato, rata.

[rspreng]

It does not have to. Just the way it is. "Of rose" is in a prepositional phrase, so it the two need not agree.

[jjcthorpe]

I thought DL had previously translated "especie" in a similar case as "type" but not now.......CAN especie be translated as "type/kind/sort"...?

[gernt]

I think it works just like species in English, so yes. Once in awhile the words mean what you think they do.

[padburygal]

I though it had too - about oranges. I lost a heart :-(

[fairyrings]

Why does clase de rosa not work?

[gernt]

Forma did not work. After looking through Wordreference, I could find a translation of class to forma. After searching for "forma de rosa", I suspect those that used it for type of rose were not native speakers of Spanish.

[Myra864656]

The sentence should read: The rose is a type of flower.

[RandyInCanada]

"This flower is a type of rose" is a legitimate phrase. For example: "I have a strange flower here. It looks like a dahlia, but this flower is a type of rose.

[Joanielovesjoe]

Esta flor es un tipo de rosa