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How do you pronounce "ver" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Sounds like "vair" said short and clipped, with a light tapped r at the end rather than an English r.
One syllable, fully stressed; the vowel is open like English "bed", and the r is a quick single tap.
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Vejo um pássaro na árvore.
I see a bird in the tree.
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"Vejo um pássaro na árvore" ("I see a bird in the tree") uses vejo, the irregular first-person form of ver, which changes its stem consonant from v to j in this conjugation. Pássaro carries a written accent because it's stressed on an unusual (antepenultimate) syllable, and árvore likewise needs its accent to mark stress. Na is the contraction of em + a ("in the"), one of many obligatory preposition-article contractions in Portuguese.
Where English speakers slip
English speakers often assume vejo is pronounced like "VEE-jo" by analogy with Spanish or Italian, but in EP it's closer to "VEH-zhoo", with the j sounding like the s in English "measure" and the final o closing to "oo". It's also common to confuse ver (to see, perceive) with olhar (to look/watch actively) — Portuguese distinguishes passive seeing from deliberate looking more strictly than English does.