sabões
os sabões
soaps
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How do you say sabões in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce sabões in Portuguese?
sabões is pronounced /us saˈbõj̃s/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
O sabão novo que comprei é muito bom para lavar roupas delicadas.
The new soap that I bought is very good for washing delicate clothes.
Esse sabão líquido é melhor do que o sabão em pó antigo que tínhamos.
This liquid soap is better than the old powdered soap that we had.
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Why is it masculine?
Sabões is masculine because it derives from Latin "sapo," which was a masculine noun, and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes (Latin -o ending typically becomes masculine -ão in Portuguese nouns). The word ultimately traces back to Germanic languages, likely through contact during the Roman period, but took on Latin masculine gender conventions once adopted into the language.
What is the Portuguese word for soaps?
The Portuguese word for soaps is os sabões — masculine.
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