Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

todos is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈto.dus/. It means “everyone / all.” TOH-doos. The first o stays "oh" and the second raises to "oo" — same letter, two sounds.

TOH-doos. The first o stays "oh" and the second raises to "oo" — same letter, two sounds.

todos /ˈto.dus/

Pluralizing never shifts a Portuguese accent, so the weight sits on "to-" here exactly as it does in the singular. Worth distinguishing from "tudo," which is invariable and means everything as an undivided mass, while "todos" agrees with a noun and means all of a countable set.

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Sound it out

to A dental t and a closed "oh," stressed. The t stays hard because an o follows rather than an i, and the vowel keeps its full rounded quality because it's the loud one.

dos A hard d, a vowel heard as "oo," and a closing s. The word's two o's differ purely because one carries stress and the other doesn't.

Hear it in a sentence

Todos já chegaram.

Everyone has already arrived.

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"Todos já chegaram" places "já" between subject and verb, which is standard Brazilian order. "Chegaram" opens with a "sh" and ends in an unstressed nasal that comes out roughly as "owng" — so the sentence moves from two clean stops into a hum.

Where English speakers slip

Raising both o's gives "TOO-doos," which collides with "tudo" and confuses the meaning. Only the unstressed one raises. English speakers separately leave the final o as "ohs." The todos/tudo distinction is the deeper problem: "tudo bem" is correct and "todos bem" is not, because one needs a noun to agree with and the other doesn't.