Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

o vento is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /u ˈvẽ.tu/. It means “wind.” oo VEN-too. The first vowel hums through the nose and no real n is produced.

oo VEN-too. The first vowel hums through the nose and no real n is produced.

o vento /u ˈvẽ.tu/

The default lands on the nasal syllable, as it does for any -o ending. The related verb "ventar" pushes the weight to the end while keeping the nasal exactly where it was, which is the recurring lesson: nasality belongs to the vowel and is entirely indifferent to stress.

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Sound it out

ven A genuine v and then an e that the n turns nasal. Air escapes through the nose while the mouth holds the vowel shape; the tongue never rises for a separate consonant.

to A dry dental t arriving out of the nasal resonance, finishing on a rounded "oo." Crisp and short.

Hear it in a sentence

O vento está forte.

The wind is strong.

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"O vento está forte" would clip "está" to "tá" in speech. "Forte" has an open stressed o, a breathy r and the palatalized "tchee" ending — so the sentence moves from a nasal into a wide-open vowel and out through a palatal affricate.

Where English speakers slip

Giving the n full consonant value gives "VEN-toh" with a clattery middle and an unraised ending. Nasalize and raise. Spanish speakers have "viento," whose diphthong tempts them into inserting a y-glide that Portuguese doesn't have at all.