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How do you pronounce "como" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Say "KOH-moo" — stress the first syllable with a closed "oh", and keep the final "o" short.
Stress falls on the first syllable; the final "o" reduces to a short "oo" sound, typical of unstressed word-final "o" throughout Portuguese.
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Como estás hoje?
How are you today?
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"Como estás hoje?" (How are you today?) is one of the most common everyday greetings, using "estás" (informal "tu" form of "estar") to ask about someone's current state or well-being, appropriate for friends, family, and informal contexts. In more formal situations, a speaker might instead say "Como está?", using the "você"/formal third-person form of the verb.
Where English speakers slip
This "como" (how) is spelled and pronounced identically to the verb form "como" (I eat, from "comer"), so learners should rely on sentence context and word position to tell them apart rather than expecting a pronunciation difference — there isn't one. On pronunciation itself, the main habit to avoid is over-pronouncing the final "o" as a full "oh", when it should shrink to a short, weak "oo" in natural EU Portuguese speech.