🇵🇹 Portuguese

porcos

masculine

os porcos

pigs

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porcos
/us ˈpoʁkus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say porcos in Portuguese?

IPA
/us ˈpoʁkus/

How do you pronounce porcos in Portuguese?

porcos is pronounced /us ˈpoʁkus/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O porco grande fugiu do curral ontem.

The big pig escaped from the pen yesterday.

Aquele porco sujo comeu todo o milho.

That dirty pig ate all the corn.

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Why is it masculine?

Porcos (pig) is masculine in Portuguese because it descends from Latin "porcus," which was grammatically masculine, and Portuguese retained this gender assignment when the word evolved from Latin during the medieval period. The masculine gender persisted through regular sound changes and grammatical inheritance from the Romance language family.

What is the Portuguese word for pigs?

The Portuguese word for pigs is os porcos — masculine.

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