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O meu dinheiro está no meu bolso.

O meu dinheiro está no meu bolso.
My money is in my pocket.
From Lesson 19:My, your, and our (o meu, a nossa)·Portuguese (Portugal)

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?
No, she would still say O meu dinheiro. In Portuguese, possessive words like meu change to match the object being owned, not the gender of the owner. Because dinheiro (money) and bolso (pocket) are both masculine nouns, they always take the masculine meu, regardless of who is speaking.
Why do we use está for "is" here, instead of é?
You use está (from the verb estar) when talking about a physical location. Since your money is currently located in your pocket, estar is the right verb to use!

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