🇵🇹 portugués

elefantes

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

os elefantes

elephants

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elefantes
/us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice elefantes en portugués?

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/us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/

How do you pronounce elefantes in portugués?

elefantes is pronounced /us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/ 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?

Elefantes 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 elephants en portugués?

En portugués, elephants se dice os elefantes — masculine.

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