🇵🇹 portugais

papagaio

masculine

o papagaio

parrot

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papagaio
/u papaˈɡaju/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on papagaio en portugais ?

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/u papaˈɡaju/

How do you pronounce papagaio in portugais?

papagaio is pronounced /u papaˈɡaju/ in portugais.

Exemples de phrases

O papagaio vermelho é muito inteligente e pode viver mais de cinquenta anos.

The red parrot is very intelligent and can live more than fifty years.

Meu papagaio favorito foi treinado para falar português fluentemente.

My favorite parrot was trained to speak Portuguese fluently.

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Pourquoi est-ce masculine ?

Papagaio is masculine because it derives from the Arabic "babagā" (via Old Portuguese), and Arabic nouns retained their grammatical gender when borrowed into Portuguese, with this particular word taking masculine form. The -o ending in Portuguese typically marks masculine nouns, which reinforced this gender assignment even as the etymological origin faded from speakers' awareness.

Comment dit-on parrot en portugais ?

En portugais, parrot se dit o papagaio — masculine.

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