🇵🇹 Portuguese

movimento

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

o movimento

movement

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movimento
/u moviˈmẽtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say movimento in Portuguese?

IPA
/u moviˈmẽtu/

How do you pronounce movimento in Portuguese?

movimento is pronounced /u moviˈmẽtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O movimento social foi muito importante para a história do país.

The social movement was very important for the country's history.

Aquele movimento artístico era revolucionário e influenciou muitos pintores.

That artistic movement was revolutionary and influenced many painters.

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Why is it masculine?

Movimento is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "movimentum," which was masculine, and Portuguese inherited the grammatical gender of its Latin ancestors along with the word itself. The masculine -o ending in Portuguese typically preserves words inherited from masculine Latin nouns ending in -us or -um.

What is the Portuguese word for movement?

The Portuguese word for movement is o movimento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmouvementlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmovimientoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmovimentoilmasculine

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