🇵🇹 Portuguese

fim

masculine

o fim

end

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fim
/u ˈfĩ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fim in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈfĩ/

How do you pronounce fim in Portuguese?

fim is pronounced /u ˈfĩ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O fim trágico do filme deixou todos emocionados.

The tragic ending of the film left everyone emotional.

Aquele foi um fim inesperado e muito satisfatório para a história.

That was an unexpected and very satisfying ending for the story.

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Why is it masculine?

Fim is masculine because it derives from Latin "finis" (end, boundary), which was a masculine noun in Latin. Portuguese preserved this grammatical gender through regular sound changes, where the Latin masculine ending "-is" developed into the Portuguese masculine ending "-im" in words like "fim" and "rim."

What is the Portuguese word for end?

The Portuguese word for end is o fim — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchfin flips!lafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishfinelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianfine flips!lafeminine

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