Word
O cão da mulher é bonito.
Meaning
The woman's dog is beautiful.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O cão da mulher é bonito.
ser
to be
bonito
beautiful
do
of the / from the (do, da, dos, das)
o cão
the dog
Questions & Answers about O cão da mulher é bonito.
Why is 'the woman's' translated as da mulher?
In Portuguese, you don't use an apostrophe-S for possession. Instead, you say 'the dog of the woman'. The word for 'of' is de. Because mulher (woman) is a feminine noun, it uses the article a (the). When you combine de + a, they merge into the contraction da (of the).
Since the owner is a woman, why is the word for beautiful (bonito) in the masculine form?
Adjectives must match the noun they are actually describing, not the person who owns it. Here, bonito describes the dog (o cão), which is a masculine noun. If we were describing a female cat (a gata), it would be bonita, regardless of who owns her.
What is the little wave mark over the letter 'a' in cão?