Word
A rapariga tem sete canetas e oito cadernos.
Meaning
The girl has seven pens and eight notebooks.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of A rapariga tem sete canetas e oito cadernos.
a rapariga
the girl
e
and
ter
to have
a caneta
the pen
Questions & Answers about A rapariga tem sete canetas e oito cadernos.
Do the numbers sete and oito change depending on whether the objects are masculine or feminine?
No. Unlike um/uma (one) and dois/duas (two) which change to match the gender of the noun, the numbers from three to ten always stay the same. You use sete and oito for both feminine nouns like canetas and masculine nouns like cadernos.
I've seen the word menina for girl. Why use rapariga here?
In Portugal, rapariga is the standard word for a teenager or young woman. Menina is typically used for a younger female child. Note that while rapariga can be considered a rude word in Brazilian Portuguese, it is completely normal and polite in European Portuguese!
Which verb does tem come from?
How do I pronounce the word e (and) connecting the two items?
The word e is pronounced a lot like the 'ee' in the English word 'see'. It is very different from the word é (meaning 'is'), which has an accent mark and sounds like the 'e' in 'pet'.