Feliz segunda, gente! Happy monday, everybody!

Or don’t you like them? Some people find them very chatas (boring). What do you think?

Chato is a very commonplace adjective in Portuguese and its meaning may very slightly, depending on the context. It has a negative connotation, so it can describe something annoying, irritating and obnoxious, but also something really boring, dull and uninteresting.

Today we are going to take a closer look at this word in Portuguese language so you can get get familiarized and start using it!

A pronúncia – The pronunciation

As we have seen in this post about the sound CH in Portuguese,

https://blogs.transparent.com/portuguese/sounds-x-and-ch-in-portugues-brasileiro/

the CH in chato is pronounced as SH, so we say it like shato.

Suas formas – Its forms

In this previous post about adjectives,

https://blogs.transparent.com/portuguese/7053-2/

we learn that adjectives in our language change according to gender and number. Therefore, this goes for chato. We have the following forms:

chato – masculine, singular

chata – feminine, singular

chatos – masculine, plural

chatas – feminine, plural

Check out these examples:

• CHATO: Achamos aquele filme francês tão chato que fomos embora antes de acabar | We thought that French film so boring that we left before it ended
• CHATA: Que aula chata! Quase dormi na metade! | What a dull class! I almost slept halfway through it!
• CHATOS: Os romances policiais desse autor são muito chatos | This author’s detective novels are really uninteresting
• CHATAS: As pessoas estão ficando cada vez mais chatas | People are getting more irritating every day

Now let’s see some more sample sentences:

• Fiquei duas horas na fila do banco hoje, foi muito chato | I spent two hours in line at the bank today, it was so annoying
• Essa festa está chata demais, vamos embora? | This party is so lame, let’s leave?
• É chato ter que ficar esperando horas no aeroporto | It’s dull having to wait hours at the airport
• Esse barulho chato do ar-condicionado não me deixa dormir | This air-conditioner’s irritating noise won’t let me sleep
• Assim que eu preencher esses formulários chatos vou estar livre | As soon as I fill out these boring forms, I am fre
• Esqueci minhas chaves, que chato! | I forgot my keys, what a pain!
• O novo gerente é muito chato, nossa | Our new manager is really obnoxious, geez
• Elas ficam muito chatas quando bebem | They get so annoying when they drink
• Meus vizinhos são chatos demais, ficam ouvindo música alta a noite inteira | My neighbors are very inconvenient, they listen to loud music all night long

*Note: there is also a more colloquial version of the word: chatice, which means the same thing:

• Que chatice, me deixa em paz! | You’re so annoying, leave me alone!
• Esse bar está uma chatice | This bar is so lame

And in your opinion, what do you thing is chato?

Espero que não tenham achado chato!