femininas

Femininas is the feminine plural form of the Portuguese adjective feminino, meaning feminine. It is used to describe nouns that are grammatically feminine or to indicate a feminine association or category. The term is not typically a stand-alone noun, but part of noun–adjective agreement in the language.

In grammar, adjectives agree with the gender and number of the nouns they modify. The feminine plural form ends with -inas, as in roupas femininas (women’s clothes) or partes femininas do corpo (feminine parts of the body). When the noun is masculine, the corresponding form is femininos, as in calçados femininos (women’s shoes). This gendered agreement helps distinguish categories such as feminine versus masculine objects, roles, or descriptors.

Contexts in which femininas appears include fashion, marketing, and demographic or cultural descriptions. Phrases like “produtos femininas” are less common; more typical are “produtos femininos” for masculine nouns or “roupas femininas” for feminine nouns. The term also appears in linguistic discussions of gender concord in Portuguese, illustrating how adjectives shift form to match the noun’s gender and number.

Overall, femininas functions as a grammatically feminine plural descriptor in Portuguese, contrasting with its masculine counterpart femininos. Its usage reflects standard practices of gender agreement in Romance languages and is most frequently encountered in everyday descriptions of women’s clothing and other feminine categories.