🇵🇹 Portuguese

comprimido

masculine

o comprimido

pill

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comprimido
/u kõpɾiˈmidu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say comprimido in Portuguese?

IPA
/u kõpɾiˈmidu/

How do you pronounce comprimido in Portuguese?

comprimido is pronounced /u kõpɾiˈmidu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O comprimido azul é mais forte do que o comprimido branco.

The blue tablet is stronger than the white tablet.

Você tomou o comprimido inteiro ou apenas metade dele?

Did you take the whole tablet or just half of it?

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Why is it masculine?

Comprimido is masculine because it derives from the Latin past participle "compressus" (from "comprimere," meaning to compress), which carried the masculine gender that Portuguese inherited and maintained through its grammatical evolution. The -o ending in Portuguese typically marks masculine nouns and adjectives, preserving the gender assignment from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Portuguese word for pill?

The Portuguese word for pill is o comprimido — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchpilule flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishpastilla flips!lafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianpillola flips!lafeminine

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