🇵🇹 portugais

selvas

feminine

as selvas

jungles

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selvas
/as ˈsewvɐs/
← masculine feminine →

Comment dit-on selvas en portugais ?

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/as ˈsewvɐs/

How do you pronounce selvas in portugais?

selvas is pronounced /as ˈsewvɐs/ in portugais.

Exemples de phrases

A selva amazônica é tão densa que a luz do sol mal consegue penetrar a vegetação.

The Amazon rainforest is so dense that sunlight can barely penetrate the vegetation.

A selva tropical, com toda a sua beleza selvagem, abriga milhões de espécies desconhecidas.

The tropical rainforest, with all its wild beauty, harbors millions of unknown species.

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Pourquoi est-ce feminine ?

Selvas is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "silva" (forest), which was feminine in Latin, and Portuguese retained the feminine gender of its Latin ancestor. The Latin feminine ending "-a" became the standard feminine marker in Romance languages, including Portuguese.

Comment dit-on jungles en portugais ?

En portugais, jungles se dit as selvas — feminine.

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