Learn Portuguese (Portugal): No meu país chove pouco.

No meu país chove pouco.

It rains little in my country.

Breakdown of No meu país chove pouco.

in the / on the / at the (m, f, pl forms: na, nos, nas)

meu

my (m/f/pl: meu, minha, meus, minhas)

Questions & Answers about No meu país chove pouco.

Why does the sentence use No instead of just em for 'in'?

In Portuguese, possessive words like meu are usually preceded by a 'the'. The preposition em (in) combines with the masculine word for 'the' (o) to make no. Literally, you are saying 'In the my country'.

Does meu depend on whether a man or a woman is speaking?

No. The possessive word meu (my) matches the thing being owned, not the owner. Since país (country) is masculine, you use the masculine form meu, regardless of your own gender.

Where is the word for 'it' in chove?

Portuguese doesn't use pronouns for weather like we do in English. Instead of saying 'it rains,' you just use the verb chover (to rain) on its own in the 'he/she/it' form: chove.

Since país is masculine, is that why pouco ends in 'o'?

Actually, no! In this sentence, pouco (little or not much) is acting as an adverb describing how much it rains (chove). Adverbs of degree are invariable, meaning they never change their form, no matter what nouns are in the sentence.