🇵🇹 Portuguese

cadeados

masculine

os cadeados

padlocks

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cadeados
/us kaˈdʒadus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cadeados in Portuguese?

IPA
/us kaˈdʒadus/

How do you pronounce cadeados in Portuguese?

cadeados is pronounced /us kaˈdʒadus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O cadeado novo estava quebrado, então tive que comprar outro cadeado resistente.

The new lock was broken, so I had to buy another resistant lock.

Aquele cadeado antigo é muito pesado e difícil de abrir.

That old lock is very heavy and difficult to open.

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Why is it masculine?

Cadeados is masculine because it derives from Latin "catēnātus" (chained), a masculine past participle that nominalized into a noun meaning "padlock"; masculine gender was preserved through the regular phonetic evolution from Latin into Portuguese, following the pattern of Latin masculine -ātus forms becoming Portuguese masculine -ado nouns.

What is the Portuguese word for padlocks?

The Portuguese word for padlocks is os cadeados — masculine.

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