🇵🇹 Portuguese

bolo

masculine

o bolo

cake

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bolo
/u ˈbolu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say bolo in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈbolu/

How do you pronounce bolo in Portuguese?

bolo is pronounced /u ˈbolu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O bolo delicioso foi comido rapidamente pelos convidados.

The delicious cake was eaten quickly by the guests.

Aquele bolo imenso que você fez ontem era simplesmente perfeito.

That huge cake you made yesterday was simply perfect.

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Why is it masculine?

Bolo is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "bolus," which was itself a masculine noun meaning a round mass or lump, and this grammatical gender was preserved through the Romance language evolution.

What is the Portuguese word for cake?

The Portuguese word for cake is o bolo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchgâteaulemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishpastelelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiantorta flips!lafeminine

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