🇵🇹 Portuguese

hospitais

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masculine

os hospitais

hospitals

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hospitais
/us ospiˈtajs/
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How do you say hospitais in Portuguese?

IPA
/us ospiˈtajs/

How do you pronounce hospitais in Portuguese?

hospitais is pronounced /us ospiˈtajs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O hospital novo foi construído com equipamentos modernos e oferece atendimento excelente.

The new hospital was built with modern equipment and offers excellent care.

O hospital público está fechado porque o médico responsável cancelou todas as cirurgias agendadas.

The public hospital is closed because the responsible doctor cancelled all scheduled surgeries.

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Why is it masculine?

Hospitais is masculine in Portuguese. It derives from Latin "hospitāle" (neuter noun meaning "inn" or "lodging place"). In Portuguese and other Romance languages, the Latin neuter gender was largely lost, and neuter nouns were typically reanalyzed as either masculine or feminine based on their phonetic forms and analogical patterns. The -al ending in Portuguese typically signals masculine gender, which likely reinforced the masculine classification of this word during the language's development.

What is the Portuguese word for hospitals?

The Portuguese word for hospitals is os hospitais — masculine.

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