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Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "o quarto" in Portuguese (Brazil)?
oo KWAH-too. The u after the q is fully pronounced here, and the r is a rasp.
The default lands on "quar-," as it does for any -o ending. The word does double duty as room, bedroom and the number quarter, and none of those senses shifts the stress or the sound — "um quarto de hora" and "o quarto dos meninos" are the same word doing different jobs.
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O quarto tem duas camas.
The room has two beds.
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"O quarto tem duas camas" uses "duas," the feminine form of two, because "camas" is feminine. "Tem" is a nasal "tayng" with no closing consonant, so the sentence puts a hum between the two rounded syllables of "quarto" and the flat a's of "camas."
Where English speakers slip
Silencing the u gives "KAH-too," misapplying the rule that only holds before e and i. Before an a the u is heard. The r attracts an English curl, and the final o goes unraised — three separate corrections in a two-syllable word. Spanish speakers bring "cuarto," which handles the w correctly but taps the r.