🇵🇹 Portuguese

vulcões

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

os vulcões

volcanoes

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vulcões
/us vuwˈkõj̃s/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say vulcões in Portuguese?

IPA
/us vuwˈkõj̃s/

How do you pronounce vulcões in Portuguese?

vulcões is pronounced /us vuwˈkõj̃s/ in Portuguese.

Example sentences

O vulcão ativo destruiu completamente a aldeia vizinha.

The active volcano completely destroyed the neighboring village.

Um vulcão submerso foi descoberto perto da costa brasileira.

A submerged volcano was discovered near the Brazilian coast.

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Why is it masculine?

Vulcões is masculine because it derives from Latin "vulcanus," which was already masculine in Latin as the name of the Roman god of fire and metalworking, and this grammatical gender was preserved through the evolution into Portuguese.

What is the Portuguese word for volcanoes?

The Portuguese word for volcanoes is os vulcões — masculine.

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