🇵🇹 Portuguese

granizo

masculine

o granizo

hail

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granizo
/u ɡɾɐˈnizu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say granizo in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ɡɾɐˈnizu/

How do you pronounce granizo in Portuguese?

granizo is pronounced /u ɡɾɐˈnizu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O granizo pesado destruiu completamente a colheita do fazendeiro.

The heavy hail completely destroyed the farmer's harvest.

Durante a tempestade, o granizo grande caía rapidamente do céu escuro.

During the storm, the large hail was falling rapidly from the dark sky.

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Why is it masculine?

Granizo is masculine in Portuguese. It derives from Latin "grānicum" (hail), and the masculine gender is typical for Portuguese nouns ending in -izo, which are generally masculine. The word follows the standard phonetic evolution from Latin to Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for hail?

The Portuguese word for hail is o granizo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishgranizoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiangrandine flips!lafeminine

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