O contribuinte revisa a declaração do Imposto de Renda.

The taxpayer reviews the individual income-tax return.

Breakdown of O contribuinte revisa a declaração do Imposto de Renda.

• revisar: to review
• a declaração do Imposto de Renda: the individual income-tax return (Brazil)
• o contribuinte: the taxpayer

Questions & Answers about O contribuinte revisa a declaração do Imposto de Renda.

What does contribuinte mean exactly?

Contribuinte means taxpayer.

More literally, it comes from the idea of someone who contributes/pays taxes. In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, it is a common formal word in tax, legal, and government contexts.

So in this sentence, o contribuinte = the taxpayer.

Why does the sentence start with O?

O is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

So:

• o contribuinte = the taxpayer

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English does, so seeing o, a, os, or as is very normal.

In this sentence, o contribuinte can refer to:

• a specific taxpayer, or
• a generic taxpayer as a category, like the taxpayer reviews the income tax return

Is contribuinte masculine or feminine?

Contribuinte is one of those nouns that often has the same form for both masculine and feminine.

So you can say:

• o contribuinte = the male taxpayer / the taxpayer
• a contribuinte = the female taxpayer

The article tells you the gender here, not the ending of the noun itself.

What tense is revisa?