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Portuguese gender. Demystified.

In Portuguese, every noun has a gender — masculine or feminine. The patterns behind those genders are mostly predictable once you know what to look for. Start with the endings below.

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Gender patterns

Six high-signal endings that cover a large share of Portuguese nouns.

-o masculine

o livro, o carro, o gato

-a feminine

a casa, a porta, a mesa

-ção / -são feminine

a nação, a paixão, a solução

-or masculine

o amor, o calor, o professor

-dade / -tude feminine

a cidade, a liberdade, a atitude

-agem feminine

a viagem, a imagem, a mensagem

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o gato a mesa a casa o cão o carro o livro a porta o sol

Words that are the same across languages

Cognates share their spelling or roots across Romance languages. They're the fastest way into Portuguese gender — a handful of endings cover hundreds of words.

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