Word
A entrada do museu é grande.
Meaning
The entrance of the museum is big.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of A entrada do museu é grande.
ser
to be
do
of the / from the (do, da, dos, das)
grande
big / large
o museu
the museum
Questions & Answers about A entrada do museu é grande.
Why do we use do here instead of just de?
Just like the preposition de combines with demonstratives (like de + esse = desse), it also combines with definite articles. Because museu (museum) is a masculine noun, it uses the article o (the). We must combine de + o into do to mean of the.
Why does the sentence start with A instead of O?
Since entrada is feminine, why doesn't the adjective grande change to match it?
Most adjectives in Portuguese change their ending to match the gender of the noun, but adjectives ending in the letter e, like grande (big), are an exception. They look exactly the same for both masculine and feminine nouns.
Why do we use the verb é instead of está?