Portuguese:Gender
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Portuguese, like many Romance languages, has two genders: masculine and feminine. Both genders help to determine grammatical items such as adjective and article agreement.
| Masculine | Feminine | Masculine (plural) | Feminine (plural) | |
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| Definite article | o | a | os | as |
| Indefinite article | um | uma | uns | umas |
| Adjective (-o) | pequeno | pequena | pequenos | pequenas |
Below are examples listed for each permutation of gender.
| Noun (English) | Noun (Portuguese) | Definite | Indefinite | pequeno | |
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| Masculine | man | homem | o homem | um homem | homem pequeno |
| Feminine | turtle | tartaruga | a tartaruga | uma tartaruga | tartaruga pequena |
| Masculine (plural) | dogs | cachorros | os cachorros | uns cachorros | cachorros pequenos |
| Feminine (plural) | cows | vacas | as vacas | umas vacas | vacas pequenas |
Portuguese pages
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| Introduction · Gender · Numbers · Pronouns · Verbs |
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| Italo-Dalmatian | Corsican, Dalmatian, Istriot, Italian, Neapolitan, Sicilian
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| Eastern Romance | Moldovan, Romanian
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| Southern Romance | Sardian,
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| Western Romance | Pyrenean-Mozarabic | Aragonese, Mozarabic | |||
| Gallo-Iberian | Langues d'oïl | French
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| Ibero-Romance | West Iberian | Galician, Leonese, Spanish, Portuguese
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| East Iberian | Catalan
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| Rhaeto-Romance | Friulian, Ladin, Romansh
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| Oscan | Sabine, South Picene, Oscan | ||||
| Umbrian | Aequian, Marsian, Umbrian, Volscian | ||||
| Vestinian | Vestinian | ||||
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