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How do you pronounce "aeroporto" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Say 'uh-ee-roo-POR-too', with the stress landing firmly on 'por' and the first three syllables all rushed through lightly.
This long compound word stresses only the fourth syllable, por; every syllable before it is unstressed and gets compressed, especially the second e, which shrinks to almost nothing.
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O aeroporto fica longe da cidade.
The airport is far from the city.
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O aeroporto fica longe da cidade uses ficar (here meaning 'to be located') rather than estar or ser — a very common Portuguese way to describe where something permanently sits. Longe de ('far from') requires the contraction da (de + a) before the feminine noun cidade, a pattern that recurs constantly with prepositions plus definite articles.
Where English speakers slip
With a five-syllable word like this, English speakers instinctively want to give secondary stress to more than one syllable, the way English does in 'air-port'. European Portuguese keeps a single strong stress on por and rushes everything else, so slow, evenly-stressed pronunciation is the single biggest tell of a foreign accent here — practice compressing those first three syllables almost into a blur.