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How do you pronounce "vender" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Sounds like "vayn-DAIR" with a nasal first syllable — let air pass through your nose on "ven".
Stress falls on -der; the en in ven- is a nasal vowel because the n closes that syllable, so it's pronounced through the nose rather than as a clear "en" plus a separate n consonant.
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Ele vende carros.
He sells cars.
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"Ele vende carros" ("He sells cars") is a simple present-tense statement using the third-person singular vende. Carros takes no article since it refers to cars in general as a category of goods he sells, similar to how English drops "the" in "he sells cars". This is a straightforward subject-verb-object sentence, the default word order in Portuguese.
Where English speakers slip
The nasal en in vender is often flattened by English speakers into a plain, non-nasal "en", losing the nasal quality that's essential to correct pronunciation and to distinguishing this word from similarly spelled ones. It also helps to know vender is regular, unlike many of the other core verbs in this list, so learners can lean on it as a reliable pattern for other -er verbs.