🇵🇹 Portuguese

porto

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
masculine

o porto

port

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porto
/u ˈpoʁtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say porto in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈpoʁtu/

How do you pronounce porto in Portuguese?

porto is pronounced /u ˈpoʁtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O porto antigo foi restaurado completamente.

The old port was completely restored.

Visitei o porto movimentado e vi muitos navios grandes.

I visited the busy port and saw many large ships.

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Why is it masculine?

Porto is masculine because it derives from Latin "portus" (harbor/port), which was a second-declension masculine noun, and Portuguese inherited the masculine gender along with the word. The -o ending in Portuguese typically signals masculine nouns, a pattern that developed from Latin's masculine -us endings.

What is the Portuguese word for port?

The Portuguese word for port is o porto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishpuertoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianportoilmasculine

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