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Practice os pés

Practice the phrase: os pés, feet. In European Portuguese, the article 'os' helps show that pés is masculine plural.

English
feet
Say together
os pés
Gender cue
'os' = masculine plural
Plural
os pés

Portuguese nouns have grammatical gender. The article is included here so children learn the sound of the word and its gender pattern together, instead of treating the article as an extra grammar detail later.

There are useful patterns, but gender is not perfectly predictable from spelling and there are edge cases. The dictionary links below are there for adults who want to check the full entry, grammar details, or pronunciation notes.

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