água – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of água

Noun: água
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fágua
Plural fáguas
uncountable

Sample Sentences

  • Queria uma água, se faz favor. (I would like a glass / bottle of water, please.)
  • Onde é que está a minha água? (Where's my bottle of water?)
  • São as águas de março / Fechando o verão / É a promessa de vida / No teu coração (It's the rain of March / Ending the Summer / It's the promise of life / In your heart) [1972, Antônio Carlos Jobim, “Águas de Março”:]
  • água de rosas (rose water)
  • Rebentaram-se-me as águas. (My water broke.)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with Galician auga, Spanish agua, Catalan aigua, Occitan aiga, French eau, Italian acqua and Romanian apă. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'agua', Latin Nouns 'aqua', Galician Nouns 'auga', Spanish Nouns 'agua', Catalan Nouns 'aigua', French Nouns 'eau', Italian Nouns 'acqua', Romanian Nouns 'apă'.

Verbs referencing "água"

Spanish Nouns agua, French Nouns eau.

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