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A feminine adjective ending in -eia may correspond either to a masculine adjective ending in -eu (e.g. europeu, europeia) or to one ending in -eio (e.g. feio, feia). Although, some adjectives are invariable, usually the ones whose singular form ending is -s , and a few colour adjectives, generally the compound ones, as in the table below:
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça TOSD, ComSE, ComIH (born 15 December 1965) is a Portuguese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.A theologian and university professor, he is also regarded as one of the most original voices of modern Portuguese literature and a Catholic intellectual.
EP: De repente, vimo-nos perdidos na floresta. BP: De repente, nos vimos perdidos na floresta. In the third person, the reflexive pronoun has a form of its own, se, or si if preceded by a preposition. Examples: EP: Hoje ele levantou-se cedo. BP: Hoje ele se levantou cedo. EP: Eles lavam-se sempre muito bem. BP: Eles se lavam sempre muito bem.
Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Portuguese language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
The consonant inventory of Portuguese is fairly conservative. [citation needed] The medieval Galician-Portuguese system of seven sibilants (/ts dz/, /ʃ ʒ/, /tʃ/, and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺/) is still distinguished in spelling (intervocalic c/ç z, x g/j, ch, ss -s-respectively), but is reduced to the four fricatives /s z ʃ ʒ/ by the merger of /tʃ/ into /ʃ/ and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺ ...
A Suma Oriental de Tomé Pires e o Livro de Francisco Rodrigues. Coimbra, 1978. Cortesão, A. Primeira embaixada europeia à China. o boticário e embaixador Tomé Pires. Lisboa, 1945. Cortesão, A. A propósito do ilustre boticário quinhentista Tomé Pires., Revista Portuguesa de Farmácia, 13,3 (1963), p. 298-307. Dias, J. Lopes.
New Portuguese Letters (Portuguese: Novas Cartas Portuguesas) is a literary work composed of letters, essays, poems, fragments, puzzles and excerpts from legal documents, published jointly by the Portuguese writers Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa in 1972.