Breakdown of Setembro e outubro não são meses frios.
ser
to be
e
and
não
not / no
frio
cold
o mês
the month
setembro
September
outubro
October
Questions & Answers about Setembro e outubro não são meses frios.
Why isn't outubro capitalized?
Unlike in English, months of the year in Portuguese are not capitalized unless they start a sentence. Here, Setembro gets a capital letter because it is the first word, but outubro remains lowercase.
How do we get meses from the singular word for month?
The singular word for month is mês. In Portuguese, words that end in a consonant like -s, -r, or -z usually form their plural by adding -es. Notice that the word also loses its accent mark when it becomes meses.
Why use são (from ser) instead of estão (from estar) if weather changes?
While we use estar to talk about how the weather feels on a specific day (a temporary state), here we are stating a general, permanent fact about what these months actually are. Because it is a permanent characteristic of September and October, we use são.
Why does frios come after meses, and why does it have an -s?
In Portuguese, adjectives (describing words) almost always come after the noun they describe, so "cold months" becomes meses frios. Furthermore, adjectives must match the noun in gender and number. Since meses is masculine and plural, the adjective takes the masculine plural form frios.
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