Counting to ten in Portuguese
One to ten, for prices, platforms, rooms and how many beers. Play the ten Portuguese words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Portuguese phrases in this lesson
- Um / Umaoom / OO-mah
- One
- Dois / DuasDOYSH / DOO-ahsh
- Two
- TrêsTRAYSH
- Three
- QuatroKWAH-troo
- Four
- CincoSEENG-koo
- Five
- SeisSAYSH
- Six
- SeteSEH-teh
- Seven
- OitoOY-too
- Eight
- NoveNOH-veh
- Nine
- DezDESH
- Ten
"Um" is masculine, "uma" is feminine. Portuguese numbers agree with the noun they modify for one and two.
Again, gender matters: "dois" for masculine nouns, "duas" for feminine. Final "s" is pronounced like "sh" in European Portuguese.
The acute accent signals stress. Final "s" sounds like "sh". From three onwards numbers are invariable for gender.
The unstressed final "o" is reduced almost to a whisper in European Portuguese, so it sounds closer to "KWAH-tr".
"C" before "i" is always "s" in Portuguese. The nasal "n" before "k" gives the first syllable a slightly humming quality.
Short and sharp. Final "z" is devoiced to sound like "sh" at the end of a word in European Portuguese.