Learn Portuguese (Portugal): As tuas opiniões são boas.

As tuas opiniões são boas.

Your opinions are good.

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What is the singular form of opiniões?

The singular is opinião. Changing the -ão ending to -ões is the most common way to make these types of words plural in Portuguese.

How can I tell that opiniões is a feminine word?

While many nouns ending in -ão are masculine, words ending in -ião (like opinião) are typically feminine. Even if you did not know that rule, this sentence gives you great clues: the words describing it, As tuas and boas, are both in their feminine plural forms.

The word são ends in -ão. Why didn't it change to sões?

The rule for changing -ão to -ões, -ãos, or -ães only applies to nouns and adjectives. São is a verb! It is the plural "they" form of the verb ser (to be), so it does not follow noun plural rules.

Why do we say As tuas instead of just tuas for "your"?

In European Portuguese, it is standard to put a definite article (like o, a, os, or as) immediately before a possessive word. Because opiniões is feminine and plural, we use As tuas.