🇵🇹 Portuguese

preguiças

feminine

as preguiças

lazinesses

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preguiças
/as pɾeˈɡisɐs/
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How do you say preguiças in Portuguese?

IPA
/as pɾeˈɡisɐs/

How do you pronounce preguiças in Portuguese?

preguiças is pronounced /as pɾeˈɡisɐs/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A preguiça é um animal muito lento e dorme a maior parte do dia.

The sloth is a very slow animal and sleeps most of the day.

Minha avó sempre dizia que a preguiça é uma péssima qualidade que deve ser evitada.

My grandmother always said that laziness is a terrible quality that should be avoided.

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Why is it feminine?

Preguiças is feminine because it ends in "-a", which is the typical feminine ending for Portuguese nouns. The word derives from Latin "pigritia" (meaning laziness/sluggishness), which was feminine in gender. Portuguese inherited both the feminine gender and the word itself, with the Latin ending "-ia" evolving to the Portuguese "-ça".

What is the Portuguese word for lazinesses?

The Portuguese word for lazinesses is as preguiças — feminine.

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