Breakdown of O meu pai tem oitenta e oito amigos.
e
and
o amigo
the friend (m)
o pai
the father / the parents
ter
to have
oito
eight
meu
my
oitenta
eighty
Questions & Answers about O meu pai tem oitenta e oito amigos.
How do you build a number like oitenta e oito?
To make numbers above twenty, you simply take the tens word (oitenta for eighty), add the word e (and), and then add the single digit (oito for eight). So, eighty-eight translates literally as eighty and eight.
Would the number change if we were talking about female friends (amigas) instead?
In this case, no. Only the numbers one and two change to match the gender of the noun they describe. Because this number ends in eight (oito), it stays exactly the same for both masculine and feminine nouns. However, eighty-two female friends would change to oitenta e duas amigas!
Why is there an O at the very beginning of the sentence? Doesn't meu pai already mean my father?
Yes, meu pai means my father. However, in European Portuguese, you almost always put a definite article like O (the) before possessive words. Literally, the sentence starts with the my father.
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