🇵🇹 portugués

banco

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

o banco

bank

Try it

banco
/u ˈbɐ̃ku/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice banco en portugués?

AFI
/u ˈbɐ̃ku/

How do you pronounce banco in portugués?

banco is pronounced /u ˈbɐ̃ku/ in portugués.

Frases de ejemplo

O banco novo oferece serviços excelentes.

The new bank offers excellent services.

O banco de madeira antigo está quebrado.

The old wooden bench is broken.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Banco is masculine in Portuguese. While it does derive from Latin, the word comes from "bancus" (a bench or counter), and its masculine gender was preserved through Romance language evolution. However, the -us ending explanation is incomplete: in Portuguese specifically, masculine nouns typically end in -o (the Latin -us ending evolved to -o in Portuguese), which is the actual reason "banco" appears masculine in modern Portuguese.

¿Cómo se dice bank en portugués?

En portugués, bank se dice o banco — masculine.

Género según el idioma

IdiomaPalabraArtículoGénero
🇫🇷 Frenchbanque flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishbancoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianbanca flips!lafeminine

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