🇵🇹 Portuguese

cerveja

feminine

a cerveja

beer

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cerveja
/a seʁˈveʒɐ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cerveja in Portuguese?

IPA
/a seʁˈveʒɐ/

How do you pronounce cerveja in Portuguese?

cerveja is pronounced /a seʁˈveʒɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A cerveja gelada que comprei ontem estava deliciosa.

The cold beer that I bought yesterday was delicious.

Essa cerveja belga é muito mais cara do que aquela cerveja nacional.

This Belgian beer is much more expensive than that domestic beer.

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Why is it feminine?

Cerveja is feminine because it derives from Latin "cervesia," which was itself feminine, likely borrowed from a Celtic source where the word also carried feminine gender. The gender was simply preserved through the language's evolution from Latin to Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for beer?

The Portuguese word for beer is a cerveja — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchbièrelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishcervezalafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianbirralafeminine

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