🇵🇹 portoghese

elefantes

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

os elefantes

elephants

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elefantes
/us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/
← masculine feminine →

Come si dice elefantes in portoghese?

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/us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/

How do you pronounce elefantes in portoghese?

elefantes is pronounced /us eleˈfɐ̃tʃis/ in portoghese.

Frasi di esempio

O elefante africano é muito grande e pesado.

The African elephant is very large and heavy.

Este elefante velho foi libertado do circo.

This old elephant was freed from the circus.

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Perché è masculine?

Elefantes is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "elephantus," which inherited the masculine gender from Greek "ἐλέφας" (elephas), where the word naturally took masculine grammatical gender despite referring to an animal that could be either sex biologically. This gender assignment simply persisted through the Romance languages as an arbitrary grammatical convention rather than following any logical rule.

Come si dice elephants in portoghese?

In portoghese, elephants si dice os elefantes — masculine.

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