🇵🇹 Portuguese

desportos

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masculine

os desportos

sports

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desportos
/us desˈpoʁtus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say desportos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us desˈpoʁtus/

How do you pronounce desportos in Portuguese?

desportos is pronounced /us desˈpoʁtus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O desporto português é muito popular e tem produzido atletas excelentes.

Portuguese sport is very popular and has produced excellent athletes.

O desporto local recebeu um novo financiamento especial para melhorar as instalações.

Local sport received new special financing to improve the facilities.

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Why is it masculine?

Desportos is masculine because it derives from the Old Portuguese "desport(o)," which comes from Old French "desport" (meaning diversion or pastime), ultimately tracing to Latin "disportāre" (to carry away, amuse oneself)—and the Portuguese form retained the masculine gender of its Romance language ancestors. Like many Portuguese nouns ending in -o, it follows the typical pattern where -o endings signal masculine gender, a feature inherited from Latin's second declension masculine nouns.

What is the Portuguese word for sports?

The Portuguese word for sports is os desportos — masculine.

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