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O médico trabalha muito em setembro.

O médico trabalha muito em setembro.
The doctor works a lot in September.
From Lesson 23:Months of the year (janeiro)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O médico trabalha muito em setembro.

Why isn't setembro capitalized like it is in English?
In Portuguese, months of the year like setembro, janeiro, and dezembro are always written with lowercase letters, unless they are the very first word in a sentence.
Which word means "in" when we talk about months?
You use the preposition em. Whenever you want to say something happens "in" a specific month, you just use em followed by the month, like em setembro.
Since médico ends in "o", does that mean this specific doctor is male?
Exactly. O médico refers to a male doctor. If the doctor were female, you would change both the article and the noun to say A médica.
Would muito change to muita if we were talking about a female doctor (a médica)?
No, it would stay exactly the same. In this sentence, muito means "a lot" and describes the action of working (trabalha). When it describes a verb, it never changes its ending. It only changes endings when it describes a noun, like if you wanted to say "many doctors" (muitos médicos).

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