🇵🇹 Portuguese

cortina

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

a cortina

curtain

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cortina
/a koʁˈtʃinɐ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cortina in Portuguese?

IPA
/a koʁˈtʃinɐ/

How do you pronounce cortina in Portuguese?

cortina is pronounced /a koʁˈtʃinɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A cortina vermelha está rasgada e precisa ser substituída.

The red curtain is torn and needs to be replaced.

Aquela cortina azul é muito bonita, mas é cara demais para comprar.

That blue curtain is very beautiful, but it's too expensive to buy.

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Why is it feminine?

Cortina is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "cortīna" (feminine), which originally referred to a curtain or cloth hanging in an amphitheater, and Portuguese retained the feminine gender of its Latin ancestor along with the -a ending typical of feminine nouns in Romance languages.

What is the Portuguese word for curtain?

The Portuguese word for curtain is a cortina — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchrideau flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishcortinalafeminine

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