Word
Vocês têm televisões nos quartos?
Meaning
Do you have televisions in the rooms?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Vocês têm televisões nos quartos?
vocês
you (pl)
ter
to have
em
in / on / at
o quarto
the bedroom / the room
Questions & Answers about Vocês têm televisões nos quartos?
How do we know to use televisões instead of another plural ending like -ãos?
The singular word is televisão. While words ending in -ão can have different plural endings (-ões, -ãos, or -ães), the vast majority of them take -ões. A helpful tip: if a Portuguese word translates to an English word ending in "-tion" or "-sion" (like television, action, nation), it almost always takes the -ões plural (televisões, ações, nações).
Why does the verb têm have an accent mark?
Why is it nos quartos instead of just em os quartos?
In Portuguese, the preposition em (in/on/at) always combines with definite articles (o, a, os, as) when they are next to each other. Here, em merges with the masculine plural article os (the) to create the contraction nos (in the).