🇵🇹 Portuguese

cursores

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

os cursores

cursors

Try it

cursores
/us kuʁˈsoɾis/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say cursores in Portuguese?

IPA
/us kuʁˈsoɾis/

How do you pronounce cursores in Portuguese?

cursores is pronounced /us kuʁˈsoɾis/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O cursor vermelho está se movendo rapidamente pela tela do computador.

The red cursor is moving quickly across the computer screen.

Eu perdi o cursor invisível enquanto navegava no site antigo.

I lost the invisible cursor while browsing the old website.

Swipe cursores in Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Portuguese.

Download on the App Store

Why is it masculine?

Cursores is masculine in Portuguese because it is a loanword from English/Latin that has been adopted into Portuguese with masculine gender. While it does derive from Latin "cursor" (a masculine noun meaning runner), in modern Portuguese "cursor" refers specifically to the computer mouse pointer and follows the masculine gender pattern of -or ending nouns that were inherited or borrowed into Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for cursors?

The Portuguese word for cursors is os cursores — masculine.

Practice with Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Portuguese.

Download on the App Store