How to form the plural in Portuguese

How to form the plural in Portu­guese

You want to learn how to use the plural in Portuguese? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Portuguese lessons complete with useful examples. Apples, houses, books... we'll teach you everything you need to know about the plural in Portuguese.

Portu­guese nouns - plural

The plural is used, in general, to talk about more than one object. Examples in English would be 'dogs', 'cats', 'houses' and 'children'. The plural in Portuguese is generally formed by adding '-s' to the end of the word.

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homens
men
casas
houses
mulheres
women
amigos
friends
moças
girls
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Step 5 : The plural in Portu­guese

The plural is important in Portuguese when you need to talk about more than one thing. Using the nouns livro, cadeira and porta (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn the plural of each of these words by heart. The plural forms are livros, cadeiras and portas. Now learn how to use each of these Portuguese plural nouns with the definite article. The nouns together with the definite article are os livros, as cadeiras and as portas (the books, the chairs, the doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about the Portuguese plural including useful examples. After you've learned the plural of livro, cadeira and porta, you can move on to Step 6 (Portuguese demonstrative pronouns).

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