Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

me is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /mi/. It means “me / to me.” Say "mee." That's it — the unstressed e at the end of a Brazilian word raises all the way to an i sound.

Say "mee." That's it — the unstressed e at the end of a Brazilian word raises all the way to an i sound.

me /mi/

One syllable, and in practice an unstressed one — this pronoun leans onto the verb next to it rather than standing on its own. That leaning is precisely why the vowel raises: unstressed position is what drives e toward i in Brazilian speech, and "me" is essentially always unstressed.

Listen: me

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Sound it out

m An ordinary m with the lips together, exactly as in English. Nothing tricky, but keep it short — this word is a light unstressed particle, not a heavy noun.

e Here's the whole lesson: a final unstressed e in Brazilian Portuguese is pronounced "i," so the word sounds like "mee." In Portugal it would be swallowed to almost nothing, which is the single clearest audible difference between the two varieties.

Hear it in a sentence

Me chamo Pedro.

My name is Pedro.

Listen: Me chamo Pedro.

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"Me chamo Pedro" starts the sentence with the pronoun, which is a very Brazilian habit — Portugal would write "chamo-me." Notice the ch in "chamo" is a "sh," so the phrase comes out "mee SHAH-moo PEH-droo," with the r in Pedro a quick tongue tap rather than an English r.

Where English speakers slip

English speakers see "me" and simply read it as the English word, which by pure luck lands close to correct — but they then generalize wrongly and start saying "may" or "muh" for it when it appears mid-sentence. Keep it "mee" everywhere. The other risk is treating it like Spanish "me," which has a true "eh" vowel; Brazilian raises it to i and Spanish does not.