How to Modify Nouns with "de" in Portuguese - Focus

Learn about modifying nouns with de

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Hi, everyone! I’m Paloma.

Oi gente! Meu nome é Paloma.

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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to modify nouns with “de” in Portuguese.

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Let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow…

so we have "de"

de are preposition in Portuguese.

you might also hear the pronunciation "g"

de or "g" means the same thing

for example

O seu número ge telefone or O seu número de telefone

so this is literally in English the "O" seu "your" número "number" de "Of" telefone

O seu número de telefone or your phone number.

this is the structure

Noun + de + noun

for example numero "noun" de "of" telephone

that is also a noun

so as you know in Portuguese we also have contractions

the contractions of "de" the preposition with the article after it

so we have De + a

i is used for feminine nouns

becomes "da"

and the plus "o"

that is used with masculine nouns becomes "do"

de, "do" and you also have the plural form of course

De + as = das

and De + os = dos

dos

da, do, das, dos,

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