🇵🇹 Portuguese

mundo

masculine

o mundo

world

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mundo
/u ˈmũdu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say mundo in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈmũdu/

How do you pronounce mundo in Portuguese?

mundo is pronounced /u ˈmũdu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O mundo inteiro estava assistindo à final da Copa do Mundo.

The entire world was watching the World Cup final.

O mundo moderno enfrenta desafios nunca antes visto.

The modern world faces challenges never before seen.

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Why is it masculine?

Mundo is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "mundus," which was a masculine noun (second declension), and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the word itself. The Latin term originally meant "clean" or "orderly" before coming to mean "world," and masculine gender was simply the grammatical classification assigned to it in Latin.

What is the Portuguese word for world?

The Portuguese word for world is o mundo — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmondelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishmundoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmondoilmasculine

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