🇵🇹 Portuguese

universidades

Did you know? This word is a cognate — it looks similar in English and has the same meaning. Cognates are usually easier to remember!
feminine

as universidades

universities

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universidades
/as univeʁsiˈdadʒis/
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How do you say universidades in Portuguese?

IPA
/as univeʁsiˈdadʒis/

How do you pronounce universidades in Portuguese?

universidades is pronounced /as univeʁsiˈdadʒis/ 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?

Universidades 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 universities?

The Portuguese word for universities is as universidades — feminine.

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