Questions & Answers about A vítima está no hospital.
If the victim is a man, do I change it to o vítima?
Why is it no hospital instead of just em hospital?
In Portuguese, you almost always need the definite article before places, even if English leaves it out like in the phrase 'in hospital'. No is the mandatory contraction of the preposition em (in/at) and the masculine article o (the).
How do you pronounce the final 'l' in hospital?
In European Portuguese, an 'L' at the end of a syllable or word sounds very similar to an English 'W' or a short 'U' sound. Also, remember that the 'H' at the beginning is completely silent, so the word sounds roughly like 'osh-pee-tau'.
Wait, isn't esta the word for 'this'? Why is it used here?
Look closely at the accent mark. Esta without an accent means 'this' (feminine), but está with an acute accent on the 'a' is the 'he/she/it is' form of the verb estar. The accent changes both the meaning and the pronunciation, shifting the stress to the final syllable.
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