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Furacões is masculine in Portuguese. The article is os, so the full form is os furacões ("hurricanes").
MASCULINEfuracões is the plural of furacão
os furacões — hurricanes
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How do you say furacões in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce furacões in Portuguese?
furacões is pronounced /us fuɾaˈkõj̃s/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
O furacão devastador destruiu completamente a cidade costeira.
The devastating hurricane completely destroyed the coastal city.
Um furacão potente e perigoso se aproximava rapidamente da região.
A powerful and dangerous hurricane was approaching the region rapidly.
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Why is it masculine?
Furacões is masculine. The word derives from the Taíno word "huracán," which was borrowed into Spanish and Portuguese. In Portuguese, it naturally took masculine gender as part of the integration of this loanword into the language's grammatical system. The masculine ending "-ão" is a common masculine suffix in Portuguese, which likely reinforced the masculine gender assignment. There is no strict etymological rule determining this gender—it is a lexical pattern based on how borrowed words were integrated into Portuguese grammar.
What is the Portuguese word for hurricanes?
The Portuguese word for hurricanes is os furacões — masculine.
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