🇵🇹 Portuguese

injeção

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feminine

a injeção

injection

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injeção
/a ĩʒeˈsɐ̃w̃/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say injeção in Portuguese?

IPA
/a ĩʒeˈsɐ̃w̃/

How do you pronounce injeção in Portuguese?

injeção is pronounced /a ĩʒeˈsɐ̃w̃/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A injeção dolorosa deixou a paciente com hematoma no braço.

The painful injection left the patient with a bruise on her arm.

Aquela injeção antiinflamatória foi tão eficaz que a dor desapareceu imediatamente.

That anti-inflammatory injection was so effective that the pain disappeared immediately.

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Why is it feminine?

Injeção is feminine because it derives from Latin "injectio" (a feminine noun ending in -tio), and in Portuguese, nouns inherited from Latin words ending in -tio consistently became feminine nouns ending in -ção, a productive feminine suffix.

What is the Portuguese word for injection?

The Portuguese word for injection is a injeção — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianiniezionel'feminine

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