Portuguese (Portugal) · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "outro" in Portuguese (Portugal)?

Q: How do you pronounce outro in Portuguese (Portugal)?

outro is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈotɾu/. It means “other.” Say "OH-troo" — the "ou" spelling is just a plain closed "oh" sound, not a diphthong, followed by a light, tapped "tr".

Say "OH-troo" — the "ou" spelling is just a plain closed "oh" sound, not a diphthong, followed by a light, tapped "tr".

outro /ˈotɾu/

Stress is on the first syllable; despite the spelling "ou", European Portuguese pronounces it as a single monophthong "oh", not a two-part glide.

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Sound it out

ou A single, closed "oh" vowel — resist the urge to glide it like English "ow" or "oh-oo"; it should be one clean, short sound.

tr A crisp, dental "t" flowing directly into a light tapped "r", similar to the "tr" cluster in Spanish, not the English "tr" in "tree".

o Unstressed final "o" closes to a short "oo" sound, consistent with the pattern across most Portuguese words ending in "o".

Hear it in a sentence

Queres outro café?

Do you want another coffee?

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"Queres outro café?" means "Do you want another coffee?", with "outro" functioning as "another/other one" and agreeing with the masculine noun "café" — it would shift to "outra" before a feminine noun like "outra chávena" (another cup). The sentence also uses the informal second-person "queres" (you want), the everyday form used with friends and family across Portugal.

Where English speakers slip

The main trap is treating "ou" as a diphthong the way English readers instinctively do, producing something like "OW-troh", when European Portuguese collapses it into one short, closed "oh" sound with no glide at all. This monophthongization of "ou" appears across many common words, so getting it right in "outro" builds a habit that pays off broadly.