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Portuguese (Portugal) · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "estudar" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Sounds like "ish-too-DAR" — the first syllable shrinks to "ish", and the stress lands on the final syllable.
Stress is on the final -dar; the unstressed es- reduces to [ɨʃ] with the s sounding like "sh" before the following consonant t.
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Estudo português todos os dias.
I study Portuguese every day.
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"Estudo português todos os dias" ("I study Portuguese every day") places the time expression todos os dias at the end, the natural position for it in Portuguese word order. Português is lowercase, since language names aren't capitalized in Portuguese unlike English. Estudo is the plain first-person present, used for habitual actions like a daily routine.
Where English speakers slip
The initial es- is one of the clearest EP pronunciation markers: it should almost disappear into a soft "ish" sound rather than the fuller "es" a Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese background would suggest — Brazilian speakers typically keep this vowel much more audible. Learners should also resist softening the t in tu- into a "tch" sound, which is correct in Brazilian Portuguese before u/i-like sounds but wrong in Lisbon-standard EP, where t stays a true dental stop.