Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

outro is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈo.tɾu/. It means “other / another.” OH-troo. The ou at the front is a plain "oh" — there's no "oo" hiding after it.

OH-troo. The ou at the front is a plain "oh" — there's no "oo" hiding after it.

outro /ˈo.tɾu/

The "ou" is loud, and it counts as a single syllable despite the two letters. It's a good word for testing the raising rule, since the first o is stressed and stays "oh" while the last is unstressed and lifts to "oo" — the two ends of the word show both halves of the pattern at once.

Listen: outro

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Sound it out

ou Modern Brazilian collapses this spelling into a single closed "oh." It was a real diphthong centuries ago and the writing preserves the history, but pronouncing both letters now sounds archaic or over-careful.

tr A t made against the teeth with a single tap right behind it. Many Brazilians colour this cluster slightly toward "tch," so "OH-tchroo" is a widespread variant.

o The final unstressed o raises to "oo." So the word contains two o-spellings producing two different sounds: "oh" at the front, "oo" at the back.

Hear it in a sentence

Quero outro café.

I want another coffee.

Listen: Quero outro café.

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"Quero outro café" links "quero outro" so the final "oo" of the verb runs straight into the "oh" of the adjective with no break. "Quero" itself has a silent u after the q, which is a nice counterpoint: one word where a written u disappears, followed by one where a written u has already merged into the vowel before it.

Where English speakers slip

Pronouncing "ou" as "oo" gives "OO-troh," which gets the first vowel wrong and leaves the last one unraised. English speakers also break the tr cluster with an inserted vowel. On grammar: "outro" never takes an indefinite article, so "um outro café" is redundant — "outro café" is what you want.