🇵🇹 Portuguese

vento

masculine

o vento

wind

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vento
/u ˈvẽtu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vento in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈvẽtu/

How do you pronounce vento in Portuguese?

vento is pronounced /u ˈvẽtu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O vento forte derrubou as árvores na noite passada.

The strong wind knocked down the trees last night.

Aquele vento quente vinha do deserto e era muito seco.

That hot wind came from the desert and was very dry.

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Why is it masculine?

Vento is masculine in Portuguese because it descends from Latin "ventus," which was grammatically masculine, and Portuguese maintained this gender assignment when the word evolved through regular sound changes (the Latin nominative ending -us typically became -o in Portuguese masculine nouns). This gender assignment has persisted through centuries of language evolution with no semantic or morphological reason to change it.

What is the Portuguese word for wind?

The Portuguese word for wind is o vento — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchventlemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishvientoelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianventoilmasculine

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