🇵🇹 Portuguese

talento

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 talento

talent

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talento
/u taˈlẽtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say talento in Portuguese?

IPA
/u taˈlẽtu/

How do you pronounce talento in Portuguese?

talento is pronounced /u taˈlẽtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O talento musical do jovem compositor é extraordinário e reconhecido internacionalmente.

The young composer's musical talent is extraordinary and recognized internationally.

Seu talento natural para pintura o tornou um artista famoso.

His natural talent for painting made him a famous artist.

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Why is it masculine?

Talento is masculine in Portuguese because it derives from Latin "talentum," which was also masculine, inheriting the gender from the original Latin noun that referred to a unit of weight and later came to mean a natural aptitude or skill. Like most Portuguese nouns ending in "-o," it retained the masculine gender from its Latin ancestor.

What is the Portuguese word for talent?

The Portuguese word for talent is o talento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇪🇸 Spanishtalentoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italiantalentoilmasculine

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