Learn Portuguese (Portugal): Os hotéis em Lisboa são muito bons.

Os hotéis em Lisboa são muito bons.

The hotels in Lisbon are very good.

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Why does hotel change to hotéis in the plural, and where did the accent come from?

Words ending in -el change the -l to -is in the plural. However, to keep the open "eh" sound on the letter e, Portuguese adds an acute accent, resulting in hotéis. Without the accent, the pronunciation rules would shift the stress and change the vowel sound.

How do we get bons from the word for "good"?

The singular masculine word for "good" is bom. In Portuguese, when a word ends in the letter -m, we form the plural by changing the -m to -ns. Since hotéis is masculine and plural, the adjective bom becomes bons to match it.

Why is it muito and not muitos if we are talking about plural hotels?

In this sentence, muito means "very" and it acts as an adverb describing how good they are. Adverbs never change their endings to match plural or feminine words. You would only use muitos (many) if it were describing a noun directly, such as muitos hotéis (many hotels).

Why use são instead of estão?