🇵🇹 Portuguese

mortes

feminine

as mortes

deaths

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mortes
/as ˈmɔʁtʃis/
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How do you say mortes in Portuguese?

IPA
/as ˈmɔʁtʃis/

How do you pronounce mortes in Portuguese?

mortes is pronounced /as ˈmɔʁtʃis/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A morte súbita do jogador chocou toda a nação.

The sudden death of the player shocked the entire nation.

Aquela morte trágica deixou uma marca indelével na história da família.

That tragic death left an indelible mark on the family's history.

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Why is it feminine?

Mortes is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "mors, mortis" (feminine), which inherited the feminine gender from Proto-Indo-European roots associated with abstract concepts of death that were grammatically feminine in the ancestral language.

What is the Portuguese word for deaths?

The Portuguese word for deaths is as mortes — feminine.

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