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Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "com" in Portuguese (Brazil)?
KOHNG — a nasal "oh" with no m at the end. Your lips should never close.
A single-syllable preposition, unstressed in a sentence, leaning on the noun after it. Unlike de and em, "com" doesn't contract with the definite articles in standard writing — you say "com o" and "com a" — but it does form the special pronoun combinations comigo, contigo and conosco, where the preposition has fused permanently.
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Vou com você.
I'm going with you.
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"Vou com você" chains three words that all end in stressed or nasal vowels, and the nasal of "com" flows straight into the v of "você" without a break. It's also worth noting how rarely you'd hear the alternative: Portuguese says "comigo" rather than "com mim," so this word's behaviour with pronouns is genuinely irregular.
Where English speakers slip
Closing the lips to produce "comb" is the standard English rendering and adds a consonant Portuguese doesn't have. Beginners also give the vowel an open quality — "cawng" — when it should be the closed, rounded "oh." Spanish speakers bring "con," which has a true n consonant at the end and no nasal vowel; the Portuguese version puts the nasality inside the vowel instead.