Did you know that in Portuguese we have 4 definite articles? Do you know all of them? Do you know how they are used? These are some answers I’m going to answer in this video.

DEFINITE ARTICLES IN PORTUGUESE

In English you have only one definite article: “the”. In Portuguese we have: o, os, a, as; and all of them mean “the”. Why is it like that? Because they agree in gender and in number with the noun it refers to.

So, whenever the noun is:
Masculine Feminine
Singular O A
Plural Os As

So, in this video I left a huge amount of examples to show you how to choose between them.

Besides that, you must know that we use definite articles much more than English do, and the rules for that are also in this video.

GENDER OF WORDS:

PORTUGUESE FREE COURSE:

00:00 – Intro;
00:09 – What is a Definite Article and a Noun and how they work together?
01:15 – Basics of Gender;
02:39 – The 4 Definite Articles;
02:55 – Exercise;
04:27 – Introduction to uses of Definite Articles;
05:09 – Use n° 1: Definite things;
06:37 – Use n° 2: Proper nouns/names;
10:55 – Use n° 3: Seasons;
11:22 – Use n° 4: The entire species.

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