vida – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of vida

Noun: vida
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fvida
Plural fvidas
uncountable

Sample Sentences

  • A vida é bela! (Life is beautiful!)
  • Deixei a fatia mais doce da vida / Na mesa dos homens de vida vazia (I left the sweetest slice of life / On the table of the men who lead empty lives) [1980, Chico Buarque, “Vida”, in Vida, PolyGram:]
  • Uma pessoa no ínicio de sua vida se chama criança. (A person is called a child during the beginning of his life.)
  • Fora um homem de boa vida. (He had been a man with a good life.)
  • Perderam-se muitas vidas durante a guerra. (Many lives were lost during the war.)
  • O futebol é a minha vida. (Soccer is my life.)
  • A vida desértica evoluiu para aguentar o calor. (Desert creatures evolved to withstand heat.)
  • Cheguei, vida. (I'm home, honey.)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vida, from Latin vīta, from Proto-Italic *gʷītā. See: Latin Nouns 'vīta'.

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