🇵🇹 Portuguese

comboios

masculine

os comboios

trains

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comboios
/us kõˈbojus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say comboios in Portuguese?

IPA
/us kõˈbojus/

How do you pronounce comboios in Portuguese?

comboios is pronounced /us kõˈbojus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O comboio português é muito rápido e moderno.

The Portuguese train is very fast and modern.

O comboio atrasado chegou finalmente à estação, deixando todos os passageiros impacientes.

The delayed train finally arrived at the station, leaving all passengers impatient.

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Why is it masculine?

Comboios is masculine in Portuguese. While it does derive from Latin "cum" (with) + "via" (way/road), the masculine gender likely developed because the word came to be associated with "comboio" as a masculine noun form in Portuguese, possibly influenced by the masculine grammatical gender patterns in Romance language evolution. However, the specific mechanism of gender assignment in this case is not straightforward from the etymology alone.

What is the Portuguese word for trains?

The Portuguese word for trains is os comboios — masculine.

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