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Practice a abelha

Practice the word with its article: a abelha, bee. In European Portuguese, the article 'a' helps show that abelha is feminine singular.

English
bee
Say together
a abelha
Gender cue
'a' = feminine singular
Plural
as abelhas

Portuguese nouns have grammatical gender. The article 'a' is included here so children learn abelha as feminine while they practise the natural phrase a abelha.

There are useful patterns, but gender is not perfectly predictable from spelling. For more than one bee, use as abelhas. The dictionary links below give the full entries if you want to check the grammar, pronunciation details, or word origin.

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