🇵🇹 Portuguese

porta

feminine

a porta

door

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porta
/a ˈpɔʁtɐ/
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How do you say porta in Portuguese?

IPA
/a ˈpɔʁtɐ/

How do you pronounce porta in Portuguese?

porta is pronounced /a ˈpɔʁtɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A porta vermelha está aberta.

The red door is open. (feminine: a, vermelha)

Aquela porta antiga foi restaurada recentemente.

That old door was recently restored. (feminine: aquela, antiga)

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Why is it feminine?

Porta is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "porta" (door), which was feminine in Latin due to its ending in "-a," a standard feminine marker in Latin's first declension. This gender was preserved when the word evolved into Portuguese, where "-a" endings typically indicate feminine nouns.

What is the Portuguese word for door?

The Portuguese word for door is a porta — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchportelafeminine
🇪🇸 Spanishpuertalafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianportalafeminine

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