🇵🇹 Portuguese

fotografias

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

as fotografias

photographs

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fotografias
/as fotoɡɾaˈfiɐs/
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How do you say fotografias in Portuguese?

IPA
/as fotoɡɾaˈfiɐs/

How do you pronounce fotografias in Portuguese?

fotografias is pronounced /as fotoɡɾaˈfiɐs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A fotografia antiga foi restaurada com cuidado porque ela era muito frágil.

The old photograph was carefully restored because it was very fragile.

Aquela fotografia bonita que você tirou merece ser emoldurada e pendurada na parede.

That beautiful photograph that you took deserves to be framed and hung on the wall.

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Why is it feminine?

Fotografias is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from the Greek "photos" (light) + "graphia" (writing/description), and the suffix "-grafia" is consistently feminine in Romance languages, inherited from Latin "-graphia" which was treated as a feminine noun. This grammatical gender persisted through the evolution from Latin to Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for photographs?

The Portuguese word for photographs is as fotografias — feminine.

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