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Nouns

Masculine or Feminine?

26 July 20262 April 2022 by Adelina

Many Portuguese nouns are easy to identify as being feminine (ending in “a” or “as“) and masculine (ending in “o” or “os“). But what about nouns that don’t fall into either of these? How do you know if they are masculine or feminine? For that, you need to know the other common endings that dictate … Read more

Categories European Portuguese Grammar Tags Adjectives, Articles, Nouns Leave a comment

Definite Articles in Portuguese

26 July 202617 July 2021 by Adelina

We use the definite articles in Portuguese (os artigos definidos) before a noun to indicate that the identity of that noun is known to the person we are speaking to. In English, this is the word “the”. What’s a noun? A noun is a name we give to people, things, places or ideas. In Portuguese, … Read more

Categories A0-A1 European Portuguese, European Portuguese Grammar Tags Articles, Nouns, Prepositions Leave a comment

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