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NO, NA, NOS, NAS meaning, usage and examples in European Portuguese with

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The word “no” in Portuguese doesn’t mean “not”, but because of its form, it’s usually mispronounced and read as /noʊ/ in English, or /no/ in Italian or Spanish. It’s a contraction of the preposition “em” and the definite masculine article “o” and it means: at the, on the, in the. When we use it with the other definite article forms, it becomes: no, na, nos, nas. It always needs to be in the same gender and number as the following word. In this video, you’re gonna hear many separate examples of this proposition, as well as how it works in the context. Use the timestamps if you want to go to a specific part of the video:
00:00 table of contents
00:23 what do “NO, NA, NOS, NAS” mean in European Portuguese?
00:56 NO, masculine singular
00:45 NOS- masculine plural
02:20 NA, feminine singular
02:58 NAS, feminine plural
03:17 example sentences with NO, NA, NOS, NAS

If you still don’t know how to make the difference between the masculine, and feminine gender in Portuguese, these videos might be helpful as they also include the exceptions. Check them out:
Masculine nouns in European Portuguese:

Feminine nouns in European Portuguese:

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