🇵🇹 Portuguese

primavera

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

a primavera

spring

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primavera
/a pɾimaˈvɛɾɐ/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say primavera in Portuguese?

IPA
/a pɾimaˈvɛɾɐ/

How do you pronounce primavera in Portuguese?

primavera is pronounced /a pɾimaˈvɛɾɐ/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

A primavera chegou mais cedo este ano, trazendo flores coloridas e temperaturas agradáveis.

Spring arrived earlier this year, bringing colorful flowers and pleasant temperatures.

Esta primavera foi a mais bonita que já vi, com árvores floridas em toda a cidade.

This spring was the most beautiful one I've ever seen, with flowering trees throughout the city.

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Why is it feminine?

Primavera is feminine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "prīmāvēra" (literally "first green/spring"), which was already feminine in the source language. The feminine gender was inherited through the Latin first declension pattern, where -a ending words were typically feminine. In Portuguese, words ending in -a generally remain feminine, and this gender assignment was preserved as the language evolved from Latin.

What is the Portuguese word for spring?

The Portuguese word for spring is a primavera — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchprintemps flips!lemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishprimaveralafeminine
🇮🇹 Italianprimaveralafeminine

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