Noun: chão
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | chão |
| Plural m | chãos |
Sample Sentences
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Não deixe cair nada no chão. (Don't let anything fall to the floor.)
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Este é o nosso chão. (This is our land.)
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Ainda tem um chão até o dia de eu me mudar. (There is still some time until the day I will move.)
Nouns inflected like chão
whiskey,
iceberg,
sapang,
sappan,
sabbat,
script,
scaner,
smiley,
slogan,
shekel,
ciclotron,
chachlik,
antinêutron,
zângão,
feedback,
antineoplaston,
greencard,
bouquet,
hobgoblin,
petabit, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chão (“ground”), from Latin plānum (“level ground”) < plānus, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). Compare Galician chan and Spanish llano. Doublet of plano, porão, piano, and lhano. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
chão', Old Portuguese Nouns '
chão', Latin Nouns '
plānum', Galician Nouns '
chan', Spanish Nouns '
llano'.
Verbs referencing "chão"
Galician Nouns
chan, Dutch Nouns
plein, Spanish Nouns
llano.
Translations