🇵🇹 Portuguese

memória

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 memória

memory

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memória
/a meˈmɔɾiɐ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say memória in Portuguese?

IPA
/a meˈmɔɾiɐ/

How do you pronounce memória in Portuguese?

memória is pronounced /a meˈmɔɾiɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A memória visual é muito importante para os artistas.

Visual memory is very important for artists.

Tenho uma memória excelente para nomes e datas.

I have an excellent memory for names and dates.

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Why is it feminine?

Memória is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "memoria," which was a feminine noun. In Latin, nouns ending in -ia were typically feminine, and this gender was preserved as Portuguese evolved from Vulgar Latin. The -a ending in Portuguese (derived from Latin -ia) generally indicates feminine nouns, a pattern that persisted into modern Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for memory?

The Portuguese word for memory is a memória — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchsouvenir flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishrecuerdo flips!elmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianricordo flips!ilmasculine

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