Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

também is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /tãˈbẽj̃/. It means “also / too.” tahm-BAYNG. Two nasal vowels back to back, stress on the second, and no m ever closes at the end.

tahm-BAYNG. Two nasal vowels back to back, stress on the second, and no m ever closes at the end.

também /tãˈbẽj̃/

This is a real exception being marked. Words ending in -em are normally stressed on the second-to-last syllable — "jovem," "ordem" — so without the accent you would read this as TAM-bem. The acute on the é forces the stress onto the final syllable and simultaneously confirms the vowel is the closed variety that the nasal diphthong requires.

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Sound it out

tam The m nasalizes the a, and a nasal a in Portuguese is raised and centralized rather than wide open — closer to the vowel in "sun" hummed through the nose than to "ah." The t is dental and unaspirated.

bém The accented syllable, and it's the nasal diphthong you met in "em": a closed e gliding to a nasalized y, giving "bayng." The lips do not come together at the end despite the written m.

Hear it in a sentence

Eu também vou.

I'm going too.

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"Eu também vou" is about as nasal as a three-word sentence gets: "eu" ends in a w-glide, "também" carries two nasal vowels, and "vou" flattens its ou to a plain "oh." The word order is also worth noting — Portuguese puts "também" before the verb here, where English would tack "too" onto the end.

Where English speakers slip

The reliable error is a closed-lip m at the end, producing "tam-BEM" like a bell. Nothing closes; the sound stops mid-resonance. Beginners also stress the first syllable, ignoring the accent mark, which turns the word into something no Brazilian would parse. And there's a colloquial reduction to know: in speech you'll frequently hear "tamém" with the b swallowed entirely.