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Paredes is feminine in Portuguese. The article is as, so the full form is as paredes ("walls").
FEMININEparedes is the plural of parede
as paredes — walls
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How do you say paredes in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce paredes in Portuguese?
paredes is pronounced /as paˈɾedʒis/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
A parede branca do meu quarto está muito suja.
The white wall of my bedroom is very dirty.
Aquela parede antiga precisa ser restaurada porque está rachada.
That old wall needs to be restored because it is cracked.
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Why is it feminine?
Paredes is feminine because it descends from Latin "pariēs," which was a masculine noun. During the evolution from Latin to Romance languages, this word underwent gender shift and became feminine in Portuguese, Spanish, and French. The exact mechanism of this regendering is uncertain, but it may have been influenced by phonetic similarity to other feminine nouns or by analogy with semantically related feminine terms.
What is the Portuguese word for walls?
The Portuguese word for walls is as paredes — feminine.
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