🇵🇹 Portuguese

sentimento

masculine

o sentimento

feeling

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sentimento
/u sẽtʃiˈmẽtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say sentimento in Portuguese?

IPA
/u sẽtʃiˈmẽtu/

How do you pronounce sentimento in Portuguese?

sentimento is pronounced /u sẽtʃiˈmẽtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O sentimento profundo que ele experimentou mudou sua vida completamente.

The deep feeling that he experienced completely changed his life.

Aquele sentimento antigo ressurgiu quando ele viu o antigo amigo.

That old feeling resurfaced when he saw his old friend.

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Why is it masculine?

Sentimento is masculine because it derives from Latin "sentimentum," which followed the second declension masculine noun pattern (-mentum suffix), a productive Latin ending that regularly produced masculine nouns and was inherited as masculine in Portuguese. This -mento suffix remains a standard masculine-forming suffix in modern Portuguese (like "pensamento," "movimento").

What is the Portuguese word for feeling?

The Portuguese word for feeling is o sentimento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchsentimentlemasculine
🇮🇹 Italiansentimentoilmasculine

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