🇵🇹 Portuguese

fumaças

feminine

as fumaças

smokes

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fumaças
/as fuˈmasɐs/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say fumaças in Portuguese?

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/as fuˈmasɐs/

How do you pronounce fumaças in Portuguese?

fumaças is pronounced /as fuˈmasɐs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A fumaça espessa saía da chaminé e cobria toda a cidade.

The thick smoke came out of the chimney and covered the entire city.

Aquela fumaça cinzenta era tóxica e perigosa para os moradores.

That gray smoke was toxic and dangerous for the residents.

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Why is it feminine?

Fumaças is feminine because it ends in the suffix "-aça", a productive Portuguese suffix that typically creates feminine nouns. The word derives from Latin "fumus" (smoke, masculine), and the addition of the "-aça" suffix transforms it into a feminine noun, similar to how other Portuguese nouns with this suffix are feminine (e.g., "tolice" from Latin).

What is the Portuguese word for smokes?

The Portuguese word for smokes is as fumaças — feminine.

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