Breakdown of Os atores americanos estão no hotel.
americano
American
estar
to be (temporary / location)
no
in the / on the / at the (m, f, pl forms: na, nos, nas)
o hotel
the hotel
Questions & Answers about Os atores americanos estão no hotel.
Why does the word for actors, atores, end in -es instead of just an -s?
In Portuguese, words that end in the consonant -r (like the singular ator) form their plural by adding -es. That is why it becomes atores.
The word hotel ends in an -l. If they were in multiple hotels, how would that plural work?
For words ending in -l, you drop the -l and add -is. The plural of hotel is hotéis (notice it also gains an accent!). However, in this sentence they are all in one single hotel, so we use the singular form.
Why do we use estão instead of são for 'are'?
Where does the word no come from?