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a universidade
university
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How do you say universidade in Portuguese?
How do you pronounce universidade in Portuguese?
universidade is pronounced /a univeʁsiˈdadʒi/ in Portuguese.
Example sentences
A universidade brasileira é reconhecida mundialmente por sua excelente pesquisa científica.
The Brazilian university is recognized worldwide for its excellent scientific research.
Esta universidade antiga foi fundada há mais de trezentos anos e continua sendo muito procurada.
This old university was founded more than three hundred years ago and continues to be highly sought after.
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Why is it feminine?
Universidade is feminine because it derives from the Latin "universitas," which was a feminine noun meaning a guild or corporation, and Portuguese inherited this grammatical gender along with the suffix "-dade" (from Latin "-tate"), which is consistently feminine in Romance languages. The feminine gender was thus preserved from its Latin origins rather than following a productive morphological rule.
What is the Portuguese word for university?
The Portuguese word for university is a universidade — feminine.
Gender across languages
| Language | Word | Article | Gender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 French | université | l' | feminine |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | universidad | la | feminine |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | università | l' | feminine |
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