🇵🇹 portugués

lápis

masculine

os lápis

pencils

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lápis
/us ˈlapis/
← masculine feminine →

¿Cómo se dice lápis en portugués?

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/us ˈlapis/

How do you pronounce lápis in portugués?

lápis is pronounced /us ˈlapis/ in portugués.

Frases de ejemplo

O lápis vermelho que comprei ontem quebrou na minha mochila.

The red pencil that I bought yesterday broke in my backpack.

Este lápis azul é muito afiado e escreve melhor do que aquele lápis cinzento.

This blue pencil is very sharp and writes better than that gray pencil.

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¿Por qué es masculine?

Lápis is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "lapis" (stone), which was a masculine noun in Latin, and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender along with the word. The term was later applied to pencils because early pencil "lead" was thought to be a type of stone or mineral.

¿Cómo se dice pencils en portugués?

En portugués, pencils se dice os lápis — masculine.

Practica con Accord

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