🇵🇹 Portuguese

pendrives

masculine

os pendrives

flash drives

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pendrives
/us pẽˈdɾajvis/
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How do you say pendrives in Portuguese?

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/us pẽˈdɾajvis/

How do you pronounce pendrives in Portuguese?

pendrives is pronounced /us pẽˈdɾajvis/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O pendrive novo que comprei está corrompido e não consigo recuperar meus arquivos importantes.

The new pen drive that I bought is corrupted and I can't recover my important files.

Emprestei meu pendrive azul para um colega, mas ele o devolveu quebrado.

I lent my blue pen drive to a colleague, but he returned it broken.

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Why is it masculine?

Pendrives is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from English "pen drive," and Portuguese treats most borrowed technology terms as masculine by default, particularly those ending in consonants or functioning as masculine in the source language. There is no classical Latin root; it's a modern compound from "pen" (stylus) + "drive" (storage device), and its gender follows the general Portuguese pattern of assigning masculine gender to foreign tech terminology.

What is the Portuguese word for flash drives?

The Portuguese word for flash drives is os pendrives — masculine.

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