🇵🇹 Portuguese

posição

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feminine

a posição

position

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posição
/a poziˈsɐ̃w̃/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say posição in Portuguese?

IPA
/a poziˈsɐ̃w̃/

How do you pronounce posição in Portuguese?

posição is pronounced /a poziˈsɐ̃w̃/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A posição estratégica da empresa a torna muito competitiva no mercado.

The strategic position of the company makes it very competitive in the market.

Aquela posição desconfortável deixou minha colega muito cansada após a reunião.

That uncomfortable position left my colleague very tired after the meeting.

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Why is it feminine?

Posição is feminine because it derives from the Latin feminine noun "positio" (nominative form of the -io declension), which retained its feminine gender through the evolution into Portuguese. The -ção ending in Portuguese, which comes from Latin -tio/-sio, consistently marks feminine nouns, as these Latin abstract nouns were grammatically feminine.

What is the Portuguese word for position?

The Portuguese word for position is a posição — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇮🇹 Italianposizionelafeminine

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