🇵🇹 Portuguese

feijões

masculine

os feijões

beans

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feijões
/us fejˈʒõj̃s/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say feijões in Portuguese?

IPA
/us fejˈʒõj̃s/

How do you pronounce feijões in Portuguese?

feijões is pronounced /us fejˈʒõj̃s/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O feijão preto é muito popular na culinária brasileira.

Black beans are very popular in Brazilian cuisine.

Este feijão cozido ficou macio e saboroso.

These cooked beans turned out soft and tasty.

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Why is it masculine?

Feijões is masculine because it descends from Latin "faseolus" (also masculine), which referred to a type of bean plant; the word retained the masculine gender of its Latin ancestor through regular phonetic evolution into Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for beans?

The Portuguese word for beans is os feijões — masculine.

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