Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide

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

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

tudo is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /ˈtu.du/. It means “everything.” TOO-doo. Both consonants stay hard, because neither vowel is an i — no "tch" or "dj" anywhere.

TOO-doo. Both consonants stay hard, because neither vowel is an i — no "tch" or "dj" anywhere.

tudo /ˈtu.du/

Ending in -o puts the stress on the second-to-last syllable by default, so "tu-" carries it and no accent appears. Grammatically "tudo" is invariable and means everything as a mass, which distinguishes it from "todo" and "todos" — those agree with a noun and mean each or all of a countable set.

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Sound it out

tu A dry dental t, unaspirated, and a rounded "oo." The t resists palatalization here because a u is not an i-sound — this is a clean contrast with "tia" or "sete," where the change does happen.

do Hard d for the same reason the t was hard: a u is not an i-sound. The ending is "oo," giving the word two rounded beats and a drumming rhythm.

Hear it in a sentence

Está tudo bem?

Is everything okay?

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"Está tudo bem?" is a phrase Brazilians say dozens of times a day, and in speech "está" almost always shortens to "tá," giving "tá tudo bem?" The final word "bem" is the same nasal diphthong as in "também" — "bayng" — so the question ends on an open nasal rather than a consonant.

Where English speakers slip

Because so many Portuguese t's and d's palatalize, learners overgeneralize and produce "TCHOO-djoo." That change requires a following i-sound, and there is none here. The other error is confusing "tudo" with "todo": "tudo bem" is correct and "todo bem" is not, because one is a standalone pronoun and the other needs a noun to agree with.