Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

entediado is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ẽ.te.dʒiˈa.du/. It means “bored.” eng-teh-djee-AH-doo. Five syllables, a nasal opening, and a "djee" in the middle.

eng-teh-djee-AH-doo. Five syllables, a nasal opening, and a "djee" in the middle.

entediado /ẽ.te.dʒiˈa.du/

Five beats, with the fourth one loudest. The i and a stay in hiatus rather than forming a diphthong, which is what gives the word its full five beats — squash them together and you lose one, along with the rhythm.

Listen: entediado

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Sound it out

en An e that the n turns nasal, unstressed. The nose carries it and the tongue never rises for a separate consonant.

te A t made against the teeth that stays hard, because the vowel behind it is a plain e in a non-final syllable rather than a raised i. Contrast the very next syllable.

di Here the d meets an i and becomes "dj" — the sound that opens English "jeep." So the word has an unpalatalized t and a palatalized d in adjacent syllables, decided entirely by their vowels.

a A wide-open a carrying the stress, standing as its own syllable after the i rather than gliding off it.

do A hard d, since an o follows, ending on "oo."

Hear it in a sentence

Estou entediado em casa.

I'm bored at home.

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"Estou entediado em casa" would clip "estou" to "tô" and links "entediado em" so the raised final "oo" runs into the nasal. "Em casa" then drops the article, which Portuguese does for home, and "casa" has its intervocalic s voiced to a z.

Where English speakers slip

Keeping the d hard gives "en-teh-dee-AH-doo," missing the palatalization, and palatalizing the t as well over-corrects in the other direction. Only the d changes. Learners also squash "di-a" into one syllable, and Brazilians often prefer "com tédio" or simply "de saco cheio" in casual speech.