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PFIGS

PFIGS is the initialism of Portuguese.

Meaning of Portuguese

Proper noun

Portuguese

  1. A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.
    • Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.2000, João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65

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Questions about PFIGS

What is PFIGS the initialism of?
PFIGS is the initialism of Portuguese.

Words near PFIGS in the dictionary

  1. PFGE
  2. pfgs.
  3. PFI
  4. PFIC
  5. PFICs
  6. PFIGS
  7. Pfingsten
  8. Pfingstens
  9. PFIs
  10. Pfister
  11. Pfisters

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