🇵🇹 Portuguese

projeto

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 projeto

project

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projeto
/u pɾoˈʒɛtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say projeto in Portuguese?

IPA
/u pɾoˈʒɛtu/

How do you pronounce projeto in Portuguese?

projeto is pronounced /u pɾoˈʒɛtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O projeto novo foi aprovado pela diretoria.

The new project was approved by the board.

Um projeto ambicioso exige recursos financeiros significativos.

An ambitious project requires significant financial resources.

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Why is it masculine?

Projeto is masculine because it derives from Latin "projectus," the past participle of "proicere" (to throw forward), and Latin second declension nouns ending in "-us" were masculine, a gender that Portuguese preserved for this word and others ending in "-o."

What is the Portuguese word for project?

The Portuguese word for project is o projeto — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchprojetlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishproyectoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianprogettoilmasculine

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