🇵🇹 Portuguese

instrumentos

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

os instrumentos

instruments

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instrumentos
/us ĩstɾuˈmẽtus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say instrumentos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us ĩstɾuˈmẽtus/

How do you pronounce instrumentos in Portuguese?

instrumentos is pronounced /us ĩstɾuˈmẽtus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O instrumento musical novo foi entregue ontem à orquestra.

The new musical instrument was delivered to the orchestra yesterday.

Este instrumento científico é muito importante para o nosso laboratório moderno.

This scientific instrument is very important for our modern laboratory.

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Why is it masculine?

Instrumentos is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "instrumentum," which was a masculine noun in the second declension (ending in -um), a gender that typically became masculine when these words entered Romance languages. The -o ending in Portuguese regularly corresponds to masculine gender, preserving the original Latin masculine classification.

What is the Portuguese word for instruments?

The Portuguese word for instruments is os instrumentos — masculine.

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