{"id":310,"date":"2008-09-16T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=310"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T16:09:58","slug":"portuguese-plurals-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-plurals-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Plurals: Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plural nouns in Portuguese can be a little confusing, so we&#8217;re going to take a look at them in a three part series.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to look at the set of regular nouns, which are the easiest to deal with.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Words ending in vowels<\/b><br \/>Just add an &#8220;s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>janela &#8211;&gt; janelas [window -&gt; windows]<br \/>cotovelo &#8211;&gt; cotovelos [elbow -&gt; elbows]<br \/>jacar<span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e9<\/font><\/span> &#8211;&gt; jacar<span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e9<\/font><\/span>s [crocodile -&gt; crocodiles}<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Words ending in &#8220;r&#8221; &#8220;s&#8221; or &#8220;z&#8221;<\/b><br \/>Add an &#8220;es.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>cor&#8211;&gt; cores [color -&gt; colors]<br \/>m<span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00eas &#8211;&gt; meses [month -&gt; months]*<\/span><br \/>chafariz &#8211;&gt; chafrizes [fountain -&gt; fountains]<\/p>\n<p>*note that the circumflex disappears in the plural<\/p>\n<p><b>3. Words that are always plural<\/b><\/p>\n<p>os parab<span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e9ns [congratulations]<\/font><\/span><br \/>as costas&nbsp;&nbsp; [back] of body<br \/>os <span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\"><font size=\"2\">\u00f3culos&nbsp;&nbsp; [eyeglasses]<\/font><\/span><br \/>as f<span style=\"font-family: Arial;color: black\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e9<\/font><\/span>rias&nbsp; [vacation]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plural nouns in Portuguese can be a little confusing, so we&#8217;re going to take a look at them in a three part series. Today, we&#8217;re going to look at the set of regular nouns, which are the easiest to deal with. 1. Words ending in vowelsJust add an &#8220;s.&#8221; janela &#8211;&gt; janelas [window -&gt; windows]cotovelo&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-plurals-part-i\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[2400],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-plurals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}