Polyglot Dictionary

país

/paˈis/

o noun A1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
países

Meaning

  1. country

    • Portugal é um país pequeno.

      Portugal is a small country.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

nação

Nação and país both refer to a sovereign territory and its people, largely interchangeable.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

país

país is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "country."

French

pays

pays is the French word for the same thing — both mean "country."

Practice

1 What does país mean?

2 Fill the gap: Portugal é um ___ pequeno.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches país?

noun

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