🇵🇹 Portuguese

gratidão

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

a gratidão

gratitude

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gratidão
/a ɡɾatʃiˈdɐ̃w̃/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say gratidão in Portuguese?

IPA
/a ɡɾatʃiˈdɐ̃w̃/

How do you pronounce gratidão in Portuguese?

gratidão is pronounced /a ɡɾatʃiˈdɐ̃w̃/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A gratidão sincera é uma virtude rara e valiosa.

Sincere gratitude is a rare and valuable virtue. (The feminine articles 'a' and adjectives 'sincera,' 'rara,' and 'valiosa' all agree with the feminine noun 'gratidão')

Sua gratidão profunda me tocou muito.

Your deep gratitude touched me greatly. (The feminine possessive 'Sua' and adjective 'profunda' must agree with feminine 'gratidão' - they would be masculine 'Seu' and 'profundo' if referring to a masculine noun)

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Why is it feminine?

Gratidão is feminine because it derives from Latin "gratitūdō," which belongs to the third declension feminine nouns ending in "-tūdō" (like Latin "magnitūdō," "altitūdō"), a suffix that consistently produced feminine nouns and was retained as "-ão" in Portuguese, automatically conferring feminine gender to abstract nouns formed with this suffix.

What is the Portuguese word for gratitude?

The Portuguese word for gratitude is a gratidão — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchgratitudelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishgratitudlafeminine

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