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o dente
tooth
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How do you say dente in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce dente in Portuguese?
dente is pronounced /u ˈdẽtʃi/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
O dente quebrado do meu filho precisa de um tratamento especial.
My son's broken tooth needs special treatment.
Aquele dente cariado é muito doloroso e deve ser extraído logo.
That decayed tooth is very painful and should be extracted soon.
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Why is it masculine?
Dente is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "dens, dentis," which was masculine in the third declension, and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes and inflectional evolution. This is a straightforward case of inherited gender from Latin rather than an exception.
What is the Portuguese word for tooth?
The Portuguese word for tooth is o dente — masculine.
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