🇵🇹 Portuguese

ano

masculine

o ano

year

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ano
/u ˈɐnu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say ano in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈɐnu/

How do you pronounce ano in Portuguese?

ano is pronounced /u ˈɐnu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O ano passado foi muito produtivo para nossa empresa.

Last year was very productive for our company.

Este ano novo promete ser diferente e mais desafiador.

This new year promises to be different and more challenging.

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Why is it masculine?

Ano (year) is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "annus," which was a masculine second-declension noun, and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself.

What is the Portuguese word for year?

The Portuguese word for year is o ano — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchannée flips!l'feminine
🇪🇸 Spanishañoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianannol'masculine

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