🇵🇹 Portuguese

meses

masculine

os meses

months

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meses
/us ˈmezis/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say meses in Portuguese?

IPA
/us ˈmezis/

How do you pronounce meses in Portuguese?

meses is pronounced /us ˈmezis/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O mês passado foi muito produtivo para nossa empresa.

Last month was very productive for our company.

Este mês chegará um novo gerente excelente ao nosso departamento.

This month an excellent new manager will arrive at our department.

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Why is it masculine?

Meses is masculine because it derives from Latin "mensis," which was a masculine noun (following the third declension pattern), and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself. The masculine gender persisted through the language's evolution from Vulgar Latin despite the word's meaning (a time period) not having an obvious semantic reason for masculinity.

What is the Portuguese word for months?

The Portuguese word for months is os meses — masculine.

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