A justiça é importante.

In Portuguese, it is very common to use the definite article with abstract nouns, especially when talking about a general concept.

So:

• A justiça é importante. = Justice is important.

Even though English usually drops the article, Portuguese often keeps it.

Without the article, Justiça é importante, the sentence sounds less neutral and can feel more like a slogan, a heading, or a stylistic choice. For normal everyday Portuguese, A justiça é importante is the safest form.

Yes, justiça is a feminine noun.

You can tell here because it uses the feminine singular article a:

• a justiça

You should learn Portuguese nouns together with their article whenever possible, because grammatical gender is not always fully predictable. In this sentence, the article clearly shows the gender.

The ç is called cê-cedilha in Portuguese.

Its job is to make the c sound like s before a, o, or u.

So:

• ça = sa
• ço = so
• çu = su

In justiça, the ç makes that part sound like sa, not ka.

Without the cedilla, justica would not follow normal Portuguese spelling rules.

The accent is important for two reasons:

1. It distinguishes é from e.

   • é = is
   • e = and

2. It shows the stressed vowel sound.

So in this sentence:

• é is the 3rd person singular of ser = is

That accent is not optional.

Portuguese has two main verbs that can mean to be: ser and estar.

Here, é is from ser, which is used for:

• general truths
• permanent or essential characteristics
• definitions
• broad judgments

Since the sentence gives a general statement about justice, ser is the natural choice:

• A justiça é importante.

If you used estar, it would suggest a temporary state, which does not fit well here.

Because importante is one of the many adjectives that have the same form for both masculine and feminine singular.

So you get:

• o tema importante
• a justiça importante

The adjective only clearly changes in the plural:

• importante → importantes

This is completely normal in Portuguese. Not all adjectives have separate masculine and feminine forms.

A careful European Portuguese pronunciation is approximately:

• [ɐ ʒuʃˈtisɐ ɛ ĩpuɾˈtɐ̃t(ɨ)]

A few useful points:

• j in justiça sounds like the s in measure
• ç sounds like s
• é sounds like eh
• the final e in importante is often very weak in European Portuguese, and may sound almost absent
• the first a is usually reduced, not a strong ah

A rough English-friendly guide would be:

• uh zhoosh-TEE-suh eh eem-poor-TAHNT(uh)

But the real European Portuguese pronunciation is more reduced and less fully pronounced than that guide suggests.

Yes, but it is not the most neutral everyday version.

• A justiça é importante. = standard, natural, neutral
• Justiça é importante. = more rhetorical, slogan-like, literary, or headline-like

So if you are learning standard usage, keep the article.

Yes, but the normal order is:

• A justiça é importante.

That is the most natural structure for a simple statement.

You might also hear:

• Importante é a justiça.

But that is marked and gives special emphasis. It can sound poetic, rhetorical, or contrastive rather than neutral.

So for everyday use, stick with:

• A justiça é importante.

Grammatically, yes:

• As justiças são importantes.

But this would usually only make sense in a special context, for example if you were talking about different justice systems, different kinds of justice, or different courts in a very unusual way.

If you mean the general idea of justice, the singular is the natural choice:

• A justiça é importante.

In writing, it is the same:

• A justiça é importante.

The grammar is also the same.

The main difference is pronunciation. For example:

• European Portuguese tends to reduce unstressed vowels more
• Brazilian Portuguese usually pronounces vowels more clearly

So the sentence works perfectly in both varieties, but it will sound a bit different when spoken.

It is a very simple pattern:

• A justiça = subject noun phrase
• é = verb
• importante = predicate adjective

So the structure is:

• Subject + ser + adjective

This is a very common Portuguese pattern, and you can reuse it easily:

• A paz é importante.
• A educação é importante.
• A saúde é importante.