Questions & Answers about O resultado é incrível.
What does O mean at the beginning of the sentence?
O means the. It is the masculine singular definite article.
Because resultado is a masculine singular noun, you say:
- o resultado = the result
If the noun were feminine, you would usually use a instead.
Why is it o resultado and not a resultado?
In Portuguese, nouns have grammatical gender. Resultado is a masculine noun, so it takes o, not a.
A useful clue is that many nouns ending in -o are masculine, although this is not always true in every case.
So:
- o resultado = the result
What is é here?
Why does é have an accent?
The accent in é is important.
It helps distinguish:
- é = is
- e = and
It also shows the pronunciation: é has an open vowel sound.
So é and e are different words with different meanings.
Why is ser used instead of estar?
Ser is often used for qualities, identity, definitions, or more general descriptions. In O resultado é incrível, the speaker is describing the result as incredible.
So é incrível sounds like:
- it is incredible
- it’s an incredible result
You may also hear está incrível in some contexts, especially when talking about how something looks/turned out/appears right now. But é incrível is very natural when giving a general evaluation.
Does incrível change for gender?
Is the word order the same as in English?
How do you pronounce O resultado é incrível?
A simple Brazilian Portuguese approximation is:
- oo heh-zool-TAH-do eh een-KREE-vel
A few pronunciation notes:
- resultado has stress on ta: re-zul-TA-do
- é sounds like eh
- incrível has stress on crí: in-CRÍ-vel
- In Brazilian Portuguese, the final l in words like incrível often sounds like a soft w sound
So native pronunciation may sound closer to:
- in-KREE-vew
What does the accent in incrível do?
The accent marks the stressed syllable.
So incrível is stressed on crí:
- in-CRÍ-vel
Without the accent, the stress pattern would be less clear and the spelling would not be standard Portuguese.
The accent also helps show the correct vowel quality.
Can I leave out o and just say Resultado é incrível?
Usually, no—not in this sentence.
In normal Portuguese, you would usually say:
- O resultado é incrível.
Leaving out the article can sound unnatural here. Portuguese often uses definite articles in places where English may or may not use them.
So for a natural sentence, keep o.
How would this sentence change in the plural?
Is incrível a very strong word?
Yes, incrível is a strong positive word. It usually means:
- incredible
- amazing
- fantastic
Depending on tone and context, it can sound enthusiastic or emphatic.
In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, people use incrível quite a lot, just like English speakers often use amazing or incredible.
Could I replace incrível with another adjective?
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