🇵🇹 Portuguese

fomes

feminine

as fomes

hungers

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fomes
/as ˈfomis/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fomes in Portuguese?

IPA
/as ˈfomis/

How do you pronounce fomes in Portuguese?

fomes is pronounced /as ˈfomis/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A fome extrema que assolou o país deixou a população inteira devastada.

The extreme hunger that ravaged the country left the entire population devastated.

Aquela fome terrível foi a pior que a geração antiga já tinha enfrentado.

That terrible hunger was the worst that the older generation had ever faced.

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Why is it feminine?

Fomes is feminine because it derives from Latin "famis," which was feminine in gender, and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the word through regular sound changes from Vulgar Latin.

What is the Portuguese word for hungers?

The Portuguese word for hungers is as fomes — feminine.

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