🇵🇹 Portuguese

estação

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 estação

station

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estação
/a istaˈsɐ̃w̃/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say estação in Portuguese?

IPA
/a istaˈsɐ̃w̃/

How do you pronounce estação in Portuguese?

estação is pronounced /a istaˈsɐ̃w̃/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A estação de trem está fechada porque a estrutura antiga precisa de reparos urgentes.

The train station is closed because the old structure needs urgent repairs.

A estação meteorológica registrou uma temperatura muito alta durante a estação quente.

The weather station recorded a very high temperature during the hot season.

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Why is it feminine?

Estação is feminine because it derives from Latin "statiō," which was a feminine noun, and Portuguese retained the feminine gender from its Romance language roots. The "-ção" suffix in Portuguese, which regularly produces feminine nouns, also reinforced this gender assignment.

What is the Portuguese word for station?

The Portuguese word for station is a estação — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchgarelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishestaciónlafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianstazionelafeminine

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