Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "o caderno" in Portuguese (Brazil)?

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

o caderno is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /u kaˈdɛɦ.nu/. It means “notebook.” oo kah-DEH-noo. A wide-open stressed e and a rasped r.

oo kah-DEH-noo. A wide-open stressed e and a rasped r.

o caderno /u kaˈdɛɦ.nu/

Loud on the middle syllable, by the -o default. The open quality of that stressed e isn't marked anywhere, and it's shared with "caderno"'s neighbours in the -erno family — inverno and moderno both have it too, which makes them easier to learn as a group.

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Sound it out

ca Hard k before the a and an open "ah," unstressed and quick.

der A hard d — an e follows, not an i, so no palatalization — then an open e with the jaw dropped, and an r sealing the syllable off as a light throat rasp.

no An n opening its own syllable, nasalizing nothing, and the final vowel rounds up to "oo."

Hear it in a sentence

Escrevo tudo no caderno.

I write everything in my notebook.

Listen: Escrevo tudo no caderno.

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"Escrevo tudo no caderno" opens with a raised initial e — iss-KREH-voo — and uses "no," the em-plus-article contraction. "Tudo" keeps both consonants hard, since neither is followed by an i, so the sentence has no palatalization in it at all.

Where English speakers slip

Closing the stressed e and adding an English r are the two standard errors, often together, producing something like "kah-DAIR-noh." Open the jaw and let the r become breath. Palatalizing the d is a third error some learners make by over-applying the rule.