Word
O meu dinheiro está no meu bolso.
Meaning
My money is in my pocket.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O meu dinheiro está no meu bolso.
estar
to be (temporary / location)
no
in the / on the / at the (m, f, pl forms: na, nos, nas)
o bolso
the pocket
meu
my (m/f/pl: meu, minha, meus, minhas)
Questions & Answers about O meu dinheiro está no meu bolso.
Why does the sentence start with O if the English translation is just "My money"?
In European Portuguese, you almost always put a definite article (like o or a, meaning "the") before a possessive word. So instead of just saying meu dinheiro ("my money"), you say o meu dinheiro (literally "the my money").
Where does the word no come from in no meu bolso?
No is a combination of the preposition em (in) and the masculine word for "the", o. Just like we needed o before meu dinheiro, we also need o before meu bolso. When em and o bump into each other, they merge to form no.
Would a female speaker say A minha dinheiro instead of O meu dinheiro?
Why do we use está for "is" here, instead of é?