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A few new vocabularies
In Portuguese, there are two grammatical genders, masculine (male) and feminine (female).
As you probably know, there are no such genders in English as all words use the same articles,
'the' (definite article) and 'a/an' (indefinite article).
The indefinite articles in Portuguese for the two genders are 'um' (masculine) and 'uma' (feminine).
Normally, nouns, which end in -o or a consonant (e.g. -r, -s, -l, -t, etc..) are masculine.
On the other hand, nouns that end in -a or -ção are mostly feminine:
Finally, words in Portuguese that end in -e, are either masculine, feminine or even both (see
'um estudiante' and 'uma estudiante'). Therefore, you unfortunately have to memorize the
grammatical gender along with each noun that ends in -e or those nouns that are exceptions to
the rules above.
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Course 1
Lesson 1
Course 2
