Adjective: jovem
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | jovem |
| Singular f. | jovem |
| Plural m. | jovens |
| Plural f. | jovens |
Sample Sentences
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Minhas tias são jovens. (My aunts are young.)
Adjectives inflected like jovem
selvagem,
tupiniquim,
carmesim,
mirim,
bebum,
comum,
homem,
jovem,
msm,
verbatim,
sobrecomum,
incomum,
marrom,
marfim,
muslim,
carmim,
commum,
sefardim,
pixaim,
chinfrim, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-u
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
5. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō
7. Proto-Italic *juwō
8. Latin iuvenis
9. Portuguese jovem
10. Inherited from Latin iuvenis, from Proto-Italic *juwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō (“young”). Compare Galician xove, Spanish joven. See: Galician Adjectives '
xove', Spanish Adjectives '
joven'.
Translations