Learn Portuguese (Portugal): Eu não tenho os papéis do hotel. - I do not have the papers from the hotel.

In Portuguese, nouns ending in -l usually form their plural by dropping the -l and adding -is. So, papel drops the -l and adds -is. It also gets an accent mark (papéis) to show that the "e" keeps its open sound and remains the stressed syllable, just like in the singular version.

If we wanted to talk about papers from multiple hotels, what is the plural of hotel?

Since hotel also ends in -l, it follows the exact same rule as papel! You drop the -l, add -is, and add an accent mark to the "e" to keep the stress in the right place. The plural is hotéis.

Why do we say do hotel instead of just de hotel?

The English translation says "from the". In Portuguese, "from" or "of" is the preposition de. Because hotel is a masculine singular noun, it uses the word o for "the". Portuguese smoothly merges these together: de + o becomes the contraction do.

I noticed the word order is não tenho. Do you always just put não before the verb?