How to Pronounce 'Amanhã': Portuguese (Brazil) Pronunciation Guide

Q: How do you pronounce amanhã in Portuguese (Brazil)?

amanhã is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /a.maˈɲɐ̃/. It means “tomorrow.” ah-mah-NYAH(ng). An nh in the middle, and a stressed nasal at the end with no consonant closing it.

How do you pronounce "amanhã" in Portuguese (Brazil)?

ah-mah-NYAH(ng). An nh in the middle, and a stressed nasal at the end with no consonant closing it.

amanhã /a.maˈɲɐ̃/

Words ending in a nasal vowel are stressed on the final syllable by rule, so the weight goes to the "ã" and the tilde is marking nasality rather than stress. That's a distinction worth holding onto: the tilde never tells you where the accent falls, unlike an acute or a circumflex.

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Sound it out

a-ma Two light unstressed open "ah" syllables. Both stay fully pronounced — Brazilian Portuguese doesn't hollow out unstressed a the way European Portuguese does, so you should hear both clearly.

nh One palatal consonant made by pressing the middle of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, identical to Spanish ñ. It is not an n followed by an h, and the classic beginner error is producing exactly that.

ã The tilde marks a nasal a, and this one is stressed. Say the vowel while air escapes through the nose, and then simply stop — nothing closes it off, so the word ends mid-resonance.

Hear it in a sentence

Até amanhã!

See you tomorrow!

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"Até amanhã!" is the standard farewell, and "até" carries an acute marking a stressed open e. The two words link across the vowel boundary — "a-TEH-ah-mah-NYAH" — and the whole phrase ends on that unresolved nasal, which is part of why it sounds so distinctively Portuguese.

Where English speakers slip

Three things go wrong. The nh becomes "n-h," the final nasal gets a closing consonant like "nyan," and the stress drifts to the middle syllable. Aim for one fused palatal, a nasal vowel that simply stops, and the weight firmly at the end. Spanish speakers have "mañana," whose ñ transfers well but whose final syllable is completely different.