🇵🇹 Portuguese

serviços

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masculine

os serviços

services

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serviços
/us seʁˈvisus/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say serviços in Portuguese?

IPA
/us seʁˈvisus/

How do you pronounce serviços in Portuguese?

serviços is pronounced /us seʁˈvisus/ 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?

Serviços 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 services?

The Portuguese word for services is os serviços — masculine.

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