🇵🇹 portugués

elefante

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 elefante

elephant

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elefante
/u eleˈfɐ̃tʃi/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice elefante en portugués?

AFI
/u eleˈfɐ̃tʃi/

How do you pronounce elefante in portugués?

elefante is pronounced /u eleˈfɐ̃tʃi/ in portugués.

Frases de ejemplo

O elefante africano é muito grande e pesado.

The African elephant is very large and heavy.

Este elefante velho foi libertado do circo.

This old elephant was freed from the circus.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Elefante is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "elephantus," which inherited the masculine gender from Greek "ἐλέφας" (elephas), where the word naturally took masculine grammatical gender despite referring to an animal that could be either sex biologically. This gender assignment simply persisted through the Romance languages as an arbitrary grammatical convention rather than following any logical rule.

¿Cómo se dice elephant en portugués?

En portugués, elephant se dice o elefante — masculine.

Género según el idioma

IdiomaPalabraArtículoGénero
🇫🇷 Frenchéléphantl'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishelefanteelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianelefantel'masculine

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