Há uma ferida pequena no meu dedo, então vou colocar um curativo.

Há comes from the verb haver and here it means there is.

So:

Há uma ferida pequena = There is a small wound

A few useful points:

• há is very common in written and neutral Portuguese
• in everyday Brazilian speech, many people would also say tem uma ferida pequena
• the h is silent, so há sounds like a

In this sentence, há does not mean has or have in the English sense.

In Portuguese, adjectives often come after the noun.

So the most neutral order is:

• ferida pequena = small wound

You can also say pequena ferida, but that usually sounds:

• more literary
• more emphatic
• less conversational in this context

For a normal everyday sentence, uma ferida pequena sounds very natural.

Yes. Ferida is a general word for a wound, injury, or sore.

Depending on the situation, Brazilians might also say:

• corte = cut
• machucado = injury / hurt spot / bruise-like hurt
• arranhão = scratch

So if the finger has a small cut, Há um corte pequeno no meu dedo could sound more specific.

Still, ferida is completely understandable and correct. It just sounds a bit more general.

No is a contraction of:

• em
  • o = no

So:

• no dedo literally comes from em o dedo
• no meu dedo = on/in my finger

Portuguese often uses em with body parts where English uses on.

So even though English says on my finger, Portuguese naturally says:

• no meu dedo

This is one of those places where Portuguese and English use prepositions differently.

In Brazilian Portuguese, it is very common to use a definite article before a possessive.

So these are both possible:

• meu dedo
• o meu dedo

But in Brazil, using the article is extremely common, especially in natural speech.

Because the sentence already has em + o, it becomes:

• em o meu dedo → no meu dedo

So the article is part of a very normal Portuguese structure.

Technically, dedo can mean either finger or toe, depending on context.

But by itself, people usually understand dedo as finger.

If you want to be specific about toe, you usually say:

• dedo do pé = toe

So in this sentence, meu dedo will normally be understood as my finger.

Vou colocar is the very common near future structure in Portuguese:

• vou
  • infinitive

It works a lot like English I’m going to put.

So:

• vou colocar um curativo = I’m going to put on a bandage

You could say colocarei um curativo, but that sounds:

• more formal
• less conversational
• less common in everyday Brazilian speech

For spoken Brazilian Portuguese, vou colocar is usually the most natural choice.

Curativo usually means a bandage, dressing, or something you put on a wound to protect it.

Depending on the context, it can refer to:

• a small adhesive bandage
• a medical dressing
• a bandage in a general sense

If you mean specifically a Band-Aid, Brazilians often still say curativo, though some people also use the brand name Band-Aid in casual speech.

So colocar um curativo is a very natural way to say put on a bandage.

The comma separates the two parts of the sentence:

• Há uma ferida pequena no meu dedo
• então vou colocar um curativo

Here então means so or therefore.

The comma helps show the pause and the logical connection:

• there is a small wound
• so I’m going to put on a bandage

In standard writing, that comma is very natural and appropriate.

A natural rough pronunciation guide is:

A OO-ma feh-REE-da peh-KEH-na nu MEH-o DEH-du, en-TAWN vo koo-loh-KAR ũ koo-rah-CHEE-vu

A few pronunciation notes:

• há sounds like a
• uma in Brazil often sounds closer to u-ma or even ũa in fast speech
• ferida has stress on ri
• pequena has stress on que
• dedo has stress on the first syllable
• então has a nasal ending
• curativo has stress on ti

You do not need to pronounce every word very strongly. In natural speech, the rhythm is smooth:

Há uma ferida pequena no meu dedo, então vou colocar um curativo.