🇵🇹 Portuguese

cavalos

masculine

os cavalos

horses

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cavalos
/us kaˈvalus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cavalos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us kaˈvalus/

How do you pronounce cavalos in Portuguese?

cavalos is pronounced /us kaˈvalus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O cavalo marrom é muito rápido e forte.

The brown horse is very fast and strong.

Aquele cavalo preto que você viu é um animal valente e inteligente.

That black horse you saw is a brave and intelligent animal.

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Why is it masculine?

Cavalos is masculine because it derives from Latin "caballus," which was a masculine noun (second declension), and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself. The Latin term itself may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European source, possibly related to Iberian or Celtic languages, but the masculine gender was simply preserved through the regular sound changes from Latin to Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for horses?

The Portuguese word for horses is os cavalos — masculine.

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