🇵🇹 Portuguese

movimentos

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 movimentos

movements

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movimentos
/us moviˈmẽtus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say movimentos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us moviˈmẽtus/

How do you pronounce movimentos in Portuguese?

movimentos is pronounced /us moviˈmẽtus/ 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?

Movimentos 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 movements?

The Portuguese word for movements is os movimentos — masculine.

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