🇵🇹 portugais

preguiça

feminine

a preguiça

laziness

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preguiça
/a pɾeˈɡisɐ/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on preguiça en portugais ?

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/a pɾeˈɡisɐ/

How do you pronounce preguiça in portugais?

preguiça is pronounced /a pɾeˈɡisɐ/ in portugais.

Exemples de phrases

A preguiça é um animal muito lento e dorme a maior parte do dia.

The sloth is a very slow animal and sleeps most of the day.

Minha avó sempre dizia que a preguiça é uma péssima qualidade que deve ser evitada.

My grandmother always said that laziness is a terrible quality that should be avoided.

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Preguiça is feminine because it ends in "-a", which is the typical feminine ending for Portuguese nouns. The word derives from Latin "pigritia" (meaning laziness/sluggishness), which was feminine in gender. Portuguese inherited both the feminine gender and the word itself, with the Latin ending "-ia" evolving to the Portuguese "-ça".

Comment dit-on laziness en portugais ?

En portugais, laziness se dit a preguiça — feminine.

Genre selon les langues

LangueMotArticleGenre
🇮🇹 Italianpigrizialafeminine

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