Accordchuvas
Chuvas is feminine in Portuguese. The article is as, so the full form is as chuvas ("rains").
FEMININEchuvas is the plural of chuva
as chuvas — rains
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How do you say chuvas in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce chuvas in Portuguese?
chuvas is pronounced /as ˈʃuvɐs/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
A chuva forte destruiu toda a plantação.
The strong rain destroyed the entire crop.
Esta chuva torrencial é a mais intensa que já vi.
This torrential rain is the most intense one I have ever seen.
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Why is it feminine?
Chuvas is feminine because it derives from Latin "pluviam" (accusative of "pluvía"), which was a feminine noun. Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender through regular phonetic evolution from Vulgar Latin, where the feminine -a ending was preserved.
What is the Portuguese word for rains?
The Portuguese word for rains is as chuvas — feminine.
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