Polyglot Dictionary

freguês

/fɾeˈɡes/

o noun B2

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
fregueses

Meaning

  1. customer

    • O freguês pagou.

      The customer paid.

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

cliente

freguês is more old-fashioned or colloquial, a regular customer, from "freguesia," parish; cliente is the modern standard word.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

cliente

cliente is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "customer."

Practice

1 What does freguês mean?

2 Fill the gap: O ___ pagou.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches freguês?

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