🇵🇹 portugais

chinelo

masculine

o chinelo

sandal

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chinelo
/u ʃiˈnelu/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on chinelo en portugais ?

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/u ʃiˈnelu/

How do you pronounce chinelo in portugais?

chinelo is pronounced /u ʃiˈnelu/ in portugais.

Exemples de phrases

O chinelo azul que comprei ontem está quebrado.

The blue flip-flop that I bought yesterday is broken.

Meu chinelo favorito desapareceu, e agora preciso encontrar um novo.

My favorite flip-flop disappeared, and now I need to find a new one.

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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?

Chinelo is masculine in Portuguese. While the etymology connecting it to Latin "cingulum" (belt) is plausible given the semantic shift from a bound garment to a type of footwear, the gender inheritance explanation is speculative. In Portuguese, "chinelo" is used with masculine articles and adjectives (o chinelo, chinelo confortável), but the specific mechanism by which it retained masculine gender from Latin through Romance language evolution cannot be definitively established without stronger etymological evidence. The masculine gender should be learned as a fixed property of this word.

Comment dit-on sandal en portugais ?

En portugais, sandal se dit o chinelo — masculine.

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