Noun: coisa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | coisa |
| Plural f | coisas |
Sample Sentences
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Aconteceu uma coisa bastante estranha ontem à noite. (A very strange thing happened last night.)
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Comprei umas coisas com o salário desse mês. (I bought some stuff with this month’s salary.)
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:coisa.
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Dá-me aquela coisa. (Hand that thing over to me.)
Nouns inflected like coisa
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Alteration of cousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese cousa, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”), meaning "thing" in Late and Vulgar Latin. Doublet of causa, a learned borrowing. Compare Galician cousa, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan cosa, and French chose. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cousa', Latin Nouns '
causa', Galician Nouns '
cousa', French Nouns '
chose'.
Verbs referencing "coisa"
French Nouns
chose, Spanish Nouns
cosa, Galician Nouns
cousa.
Translations