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Regras de Gramática
Learning the Grammar rules of any language is very necessary. Here you can find some grammar rules like genders, plurals and negations, which makes it easier for you to understand and speak Portuguese better.

If properly understood these rules can be quite simple and easy to learn, like a masculine noun will end with the letter ‘o’ or a feminine noun will end with ‘a’. Similarly a word ending with a vowel can be made plural by only adding ‘s’.

Gender Rules - Gênero Regras

• The masculine nouns are usually identified by the suffix –o. The nouns can be changed to feminine nouns by adding the suffix –a instead of –o. However, not all masculine nouns end with ‘o’ and not all feminine nouns end with ‘a’

E.g. :

• The genders for inanimate entities can also be recognized by its ending; with o/os for masculine and a/as for feminine

E.g. :
Masculine        Feminine
carro (car)        pedra (stone)
saco (bag)        casa (house)

• Words ending with letters have few rules.

E.g. :
Masculine        Feminine
amor (love)       flor (flower)
mar (sea)          nau (ship)

Plurals - Plurais

• For words which have a vowel as suffix add ‘s’

E.g. : carro (car) – carros (cars)

• For words which have ‘ão’ as suffix, you can add

- ‘ões’ E.g. : Avião (aeroplane) – Aviões (aeroplanes) OR
- ‘ãe’s E.g. :Pão (bread) - Pães (breads) OR
- ‘ãos’ E.g. : Mão (hand) – Mãos (hands)

• For words which have  al/el/ol/ul as suffix, change the letter ‘l’ for ‘is’

E.g. : Capital (capital) – Capitais (capitals)

• For words which have ‘m’ as suffix change it for ‘ns’

E.g. : Trem (train) – Trens (trains)

• For words which have  r/s/z as suffix, add suffix ‘es’

E.g. : Mês (month) -  Meses (months)
Luz (light) -  luzes (lights)

Negations - Negação

• Negation in Portuguese is quite easy. You only have to add the prefix ‘não’ to the verb.

E.g. :
Não é meu (It is not mine)
Ele não está aqui (He is not here)

• Sometimes the word ‘algum’ is used for negation

E.g. : De modo algum (By no means)

• The word ‘nada’ can also be used for negation

E.g. : Eu não fiz nada (I did nothing)