🇵🇹 portugués

café

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 café

coffee

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café
/u kaˈfɛ/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice café en portugués?

AFI
/u kaˈfɛ/

How do you pronounce café in portugués?

café is pronounced /u kaˈfɛ/ in portugués.

Frases de ejemplo

O café quente que comprei esta manhã era delicioso.

The hot coffee that I bought this morning was delicious.

Este café brasileiro é muito mais forte do que o café colombiano.

This Brazilian coffee is much stronger than the Colombian coffee.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Café is masculine in Portuguese. The word derives from Arabic "qahwa" through French "café," entering Portuguese via trade and cultural contact. In Portuguese, the word adopted the masculine gender, though the explanation for why specifically masculine is complex—it may relate to how the word was borrowed and integrated into Portuguese noun patterns, but the claim about "masculine gender patterns typical of words borrowed from Arabic" is overstated, as Arabic loanwords in Portuguese do not consistently follow a single gender pattern.

¿Cómo se dice coffee en portugués?

En portugués, coffee se dice o café — masculine.

Género según el idioma

IdiomaPalabraArtículoGénero
🇫🇷 Frenchcafélemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishcaféelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiancaffèilmasculine

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