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Portuguese (Brazil) · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "vazio" in Portuguese (Brazil)?
vah-ZEE-oo. Three syllables, and that z between vowels genuinely buzzes.
Second-to-last syllable, which the -o ending delivers by default, and here that syllable is the "zi." The word is a useful companion to "frio": both end in a stressed i followed by a standalone o, and neither takes an accent because the default rule already lands in the right place.
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A geladeira está vazia.
The fridge is empty.
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"A geladeira está vazia" gives you "geladeira," which opens with a soft "zh" — g before an e — and has a stressed "ei" diphthong in the middle. The adjective agrees with the feminine noun, becoming "vazia," and the stress stays exactly where it was.
Where English speakers slip
Devoicing the z into an s produces "vah-SEE-oo," which comes from reading rather than listening. It must buzz. The syllable count is the other trap: squashing the ending into a glide gives two beats where there are three. And Spanish speakers reach for "vacío," whose stress pattern is the same but whose consonants are entirely different.