Portuguese (Portugal) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

vento is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written [ˈvẽ.tu]. It means “wind.” Say "VEN-too" but push the first vowel through your nose, like the "en" in French "vent" — and end with a short "oo", not "oh".

Say "VEN-too" but push the first vowel through your nose, like the "en" in French "vent" — and end with a short "oo", not "oh".

vento [ˈvẽ.tu]

Stress falls on "ven"; the "en" is a nasal vowel (air escapes through the nose), and the final "o" is pronounced like a short "oo", not like English "oh".

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Sound it out

v A soft English "v" as in "van".

en A nasalized "eh" — say "eh" while letting air pass through your nose, similar to the nasal vowel in French "vin" but with an "e" quality.

to Unstressed final "o" is pronounced like a short English "oo" (as in "book"), never like the "oh" in "toe".

Hear it in a sentence

Está muito vento hoje.

It's very windy today.

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"Está muito vento hoje" literally means "There is a lot of wind today", though word for word it reads like "It is very windy today" using estar plus an adverb of degree (muito) before the noun. This is a common Portuguese weather construction — vento is treated almost like an adjective of intensity here rather than a plain noun.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers often skip the nasalization entirely and say something like "VEN-toh", flattening the nasal vowel and turning the final o into a clear "oh". In European Portuguese that final o is not only nasal-free but also shortened to "oo" — quite different from the fuller "VEN-tchoo" a Brazilian speaker might produce with a palatalized t.