🇵🇹 portoghese

chinelo

masculine

o chinelo

sandal

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chinelo
/u ʃiˈnelu/
← masculine feminine →

Come si dice chinelo in portoghese?

AFI
/u ʃiˈnelu/

How do you pronounce chinelo in portoghese?

chinelo is pronounced /u ʃiˈnelu/ in portoghese.

Frasi di esempio

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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Perché è 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.

Come si dice sandal in portoghese?

In portoghese, sandal si dice o chinelo — masculine.

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