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How do you pronounce "comer" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Sounds like "koo-MAIR" — the first syllable tightens to "koo", with stress on the second syllable.
Stress falls on -mer; the unstressed co- closes from "oh" toward "oo", a very typical EP vowel reduction.
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Vamos comer pizza hoje.
We're going to eat pizza today.
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"Vamos comer pizza hoje" ("Let's eat pizza today") uses vamos + infinitive as an informal way to say "let's", parallel to English "we're going to eat". This is a very casual, everyday sentence with no article needed before pizza since it's an uncountable/general reference to the food. Hoje ("today") typically comes at the end of the sentence in natural spoken word order.
Where English speakers slip
Learners often keep the o in co- fully open, saying something like "koh-mer", when EP consistently tightens unstressed o toward "oo" — this is one of the most reliable ways to distinguish an EP accent from a BP one, where unstressed vowels stay more open. The final -er should also stay short and clipped, not drawn out the way English speakers instinctively lengthen stressed final syllables.