🇵🇹 Portuguese

florestas

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feminine

as florestas

forests

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florestas
/as floˈɾɛstɐs/
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How do you say florestas in Portuguese?

IPA
/as floˈɾɛstɐs/

How do you pronounce florestas in Portuguese?

florestas is pronounced /as floˈɾɛstɐs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A floresta amazônica é a maior do mundo e precisa ser protegida.

The Amazonian forest is the largest in the world and needs to be protected.

A floresta densa estava completamente escura quando entramos nela.

The dense forest was completely dark when we entered it.

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Why is it feminine?

Florestas is feminine because it ends in the productive feminine suffix "-a" in Portuguese. The word derives from Old French "forest" (itself from Latin "forestis", meaning "outside woods" or "uncultivated land"), which was used in medieval Latin with feminine gender. The feminine ending "-a" was applied when the word was adopted into Portuguese, following the regular pattern where words ending in "-a" are typically feminine in Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for forests?

The Portuguese word for forests is as florestas — feminine.

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