🇵🇹 Portuguese

serviço

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 serviço

service

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serviço
/u seʁˈvisu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say serviço in Portuguese?

IPA
/u seʁˈvisu/

How do you pronounce serviço in Portuguese?

serviço is pronounced /u seʁˈvisu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O serviço rápido que contratei foi excelente para a mudança.

The quick service that I hired was excellent for the move.

Este serviço novo oferecido pela empresa é muito bom e confiável.

This new service offered by the company is very good and reliable.

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Why is it masculine?

Serviço is masculine because it derives from Latin "servitium," which was a neuter noun, but when Romance languages evolved, many Latin neuter nouns were reanalyzed as masculine (since the neuter gender largely disappeared), and "servitium" followed this pattern into Portuguese as a masculine noun.

What is the Portuguese word for service?

The Portuguese word for service is o serviço — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchservicelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishservicioelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianservizioilmasculine

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