🇵🇹 Portuguese

vidro

masculine

o vidro

glass

Try it

vidro
/u ˈvidɾu/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vidro in Portuguese?

IPA
/u ˈvidɾu/

How do you pronounce vidro in Portuguese?

vidro is pronounced /u ˈvidɾu/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O vidro quebrado cortou minha mão.

The broken glass cut my hand.

Aquele vidro azul é muito bonito e caro.

That blue glass is very beautiful and expensive.

Swipe vidro in Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Portuguese.

Download on the App Store

Why is it masculine?

Vidro is masculine because it derives from Latin "vitrum," which was a masculine noun of the second declension (ending in -um), and Portuguese retained this grammatical gender through regular sound changes. The Latin masculine gender was preserved as the language evolved, making "o vidro" (the glass) the standard form.

What is the Portuguese word for glass?

The Portuguese word for glass is o vidro — masculine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchverrelemasculine
🇪🇸 Spanishvidrioelmasculine
🇮🇹 Italianvetroilmasculine

Practice with Accord

Swipe through hundreds of words and master grammatical gender in Portuguese.

Download on the App Store