Portuguese Lesson: De São Paulo; Do Brasil - Learn How to Say It Right Video Lecture | Learn and Master: Brazilian - Other languages

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way to the day the solution that
street-smart Brazil will just say that
someone is ji-sun Paulo or do some Paulo
I am do Brazil or G Brazil when is it G
do da when do you have to use a no now
so basically the question is how do you
choose the correct article and
prepositions to use with the names of
countries cities states I hope to answer
many of these questions with this lesson
and I really hope to make things much
easier for you it's actually not as
difficult we have a few rules to help us
and of course we are going to have
exceptions to the rules as well so I
have divided this lesson in two parts in
the first part we are going to talk
about the use of articles and in a
second part the use of prepositions but
then it's going to be super easy after
you master the articles okay you're
ready let's go part one of our lesson is
the use of articles so the first thing
you need to know is how to choose the
correct article to use with the names of
cities countries States we're talking
about definite articles in Portuguese
they are oh-ah owes us in English you
have live so first rule for you series
with cities do not use an article so you
will say some Paulo is fascinated some
Paulo and fastened ng some Paulo a fast
energy so it's not both some power here
a lot of students saying or some problem
it's understandable but with series you
do not
an article another example for you
florianópolis is in the south of Brazil
florianópolis fika no soo do Brasil no
article in front of the city name
florianópolis
Ficano su do brasil porto alegre has a
lot of cultural life both to allegra
tame winter vie de cultura post alegre
team winter v de cultura same thing
happens with um foreign series New York
never sleeps no veo que nunca domine
yeah that's how we say New York approach
it is not very okey now biocking new
Gadhafi one more example San Francisco
is an incredible place San Francisco
el lugar in crevo San Francisco el lugar
in crevo of course we have exceptions
and the most common exception is Rio de
Janeiro because we see Oh huge is your
natal but think about it here de Janeiro
means River of January so the same way
that you need to seek the Amazon River
you also need to say the river of
January so one example would be real
Hugh de Janeiro is a wonderful city Oh
Hugh de Janeiro
mm I see dodgy maravillosa Oh Hugh J
Janeiro MOC dodgy
maravillosa fantastic now we have our
second rule countries with countries you
need to use an article so you will say F
Franza in English you just say friends
but not in Portuguese you need to use
the article you see a Franza oh brazil
all the studies Unidos therefore when
you talk about this countries let's see
if you examples France has
many beautiful series are franceour 10
moontak cidades bonitas you need to say
a Franza a France at a Muay Thai cidades
Benitez Brazil is a very big country or
Brazil my is mu into Gandhi you need to
say Oh Brazil you cannot just say bless
you
Oh Brazil my is mu into grungy one more
example the United States attracts many
tourists was Estados Unidos a trying
moon to stretch this pose Estados Unidos
are trying mu into storage thes try not
to translate to English in your mind
because it doesn't make sense to say D
Brazil is a very big country but in
Portuguese with countries you need the
articles there are exceptions of course
one exception is Portugal we do not use
an article with Portugal so you just say
Portugal is in Europe postal Gao fika
night Appa poster girl Vika not Europa
now you might be wondering how do you
choose whether to use the masculine or
feminine article in front of the name of
the country there is a general rule if
the country ends in a it's feminine so I
will say Argentina Argentina Bolivia ah
Bolivia ah suecia
suicide Sweden L su Asia when the name
of the country ends with a different
letter B a vowel or a consonant it's
masculine so I will say oh oh why oh why
oh Peru Peru Mexico boom
Chico and of course there is a very big
exception which is Canada because it's
masculine we say Oh Canada Oh Canada
rule number three continents you always
need to use the article in front of the
continents and they are all feminine so
you say are America do soo-ah
america do su same thing for america do
logic of america do not G America
theology America Central America Central
Africa uh Europa ah
Asya Australia Antarctica rule number
four states
well when the states it's a bit more
confusing because it varies with the
Brazilian states most of them will take
the masculine article so you say Oh
Amazonas here I'm talking about the
state not the river Oh Amazonas open ah
open and now we have a complete list of
the Brazilian states on our blog post so
visit street-smart Brazil comm slash
blog for the complete list there are two
Brazilian states that take the feminine
article and they are a by year-by-year
aparajita opera diva and there are nine
Brazilian states that do not take any
article so one example is Alagoas we
just say eligos Minas Gerais Sao Paulo
somehow is the name of the city and of
the state and it doesn't take the
article some power great so part two of
our lesson the use of prepositions and
this is going to be much easier once you
know if you need an article it's much
easier to decide the correct
position to use so let's see we'll be
talking about two prepositions G which
means from an A which means in on at so
we have three situations when places do
not take an article you use G or a so
you use the preposition pure one example
some Pablo is a city I don't use an
article so I just say some Paulo so if I
want to say Maria is from San Paolo
Maria a G San Paolo
Maria AG San Paulo da moneh say Maria is
in Sao Paulo
Maria is star pain são Paulo
Maria start in Sao Paulo second
situation with places that take the
feminine article then you use da or not
that is the contraction of the
preposition G and the article are na is
the contraction of the preposition
inning and the article app so um for
instance abaya so if I want to say a
nice from Bahia I say na da Bahia
Annette de Bahia
Anna is in value and I stopped nah valia
and I stop now value
the third situation you probably already
guessing it when you're talking about
places that take the masculine article
then you need to use do or you do Brazil
well examples a country I need the
article it's masculine article or Brazil
so I am from Brazil we also do Brazil we
also do Brazil if I were to say I am in
Brazil it was so new Brazil
it was so no Brazil sometimes you need
the plural for instance all the starters
annuities so if an to say Josh is from
the United States Josh a do the studies
routines Josh those Estados Unidos Josh
is in the United States
Josh a star knows Estados Unidos Josh
Stan knows Estados Unidos
you use the same reasoning when you're
using the prepositions D and aim with
other verbs for instance if I want to
say I like Brazil we know that the verb
basta in Portuguese requires the
preposition G so I have to say it wash
to do Brazil it wash to do Brazil I was
born in Brazil illness II know Brazil
illness II know Brazil and it's the same
thing when you're talking about other
nouns which are not countries and cities
for instance he came from work le vélo
do trabajo le value du travail you one
more example the keys are on the table I
shall visit Oh namitha I shall visit Oh
num is great I hope that helps visit our
blog I have a quick quiz there so you
can test what you just learned
so visit street smart Brazil dr. slash
blogs I wanted to say one more thing
don't feel frustrated if you still make
mistakes with this when you're in the
middle of a conversation
your brain is processing everything too
fast so it's just natural that sometimes
your brain will still let the wrong
preposition slip it's okay it's not a
big deal
so have fun practice your Portuguese and
have a blast with it
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