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How do you pronounce "óculos" in Portuguese (Portugal)?
Say "AW-koo-loosh" — stress on the very first syllable with an open "aw", and the word ends in "-loosh", not "-los".
Stress is on the first syllable "ó" (open "o", marked by the accent); the word is grammatically plural even for a single pair of glasses, and the final "-os" is pronounced "oosh" with the "s" turning into "sh".
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Não vejo bem sem óculos.
I can't see well without glasses.
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"Não vejo bem sem óculos" ("I can't see well without glasses") uses "sem" ("without") plus the noun directly, and like English "glasses", "óculos" is always plural in Portuguese even when talking about one pair, so it always pairs with plural verbs and articles. "Vejo bem" literally means "I see well", negated here by "não" at the start.
Where English speakers slip
Because "óculos" starts with the stress, English speakers sometimes still add secondary stress or lengthen the later syllables out of habit, saying something like "oh-KOO-los". The stress truly belongs only on the first syllable, and that final "-os" should shrink to a light "oosh" — a full, unreduced "os" at the end is a strong tell of a non-European pronunciation.