🇵🇹 Portuguese

imposto

masculine

o imposto

tax

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imposto
/u ĩˈpostu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say imposto in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ĩˈpostu/

How do you pronounce imposto in Portuguese?

imposto is pronounced /u ĩˈpostu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O imposto federal novo foi aprovado pelo Congresso.

The new federal tax was approved by Congress.

Este imposto municipal é muito alto e prejudicial para os comerciantes locais.

This municipal tax is very high and harmful to local merchants.

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Why is it masculine?

Imposto is masculine because it derives from Latin "impositum" (the past participle of "imponere," meaning to impose), which carried the neuter gender in Latin but was reanalyzed as masculine in Portuguese following the language's general pattern of absorbing Latin neuter forms into the masculine gender category.

What is the Portuguese word for tax?

The Portuguese word for tax is o imposto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchimpôtl'masculine
🇪🇸 Spanishimpuestoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiantassa flips!lafeminine

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