Learn Portuguese (Portugal): O vento abre a janela.

O vento abre a janela.

The wind opens the window.

Breakdown of O vento abre a janela.

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Questions & Answers about O vento abre a janela.

Why does this sentence use two different words for "the" (o and a)?

In Portuguese, all nouns have a grammatical gender. Vento (wind) is masculine, so it uses the masculine "the", which is o. Janela (window) is feminine (like most words ending in -a), so it takes the feminine "the", which is a.

Why does the verb abrir (to open) end in an "e" here (abre) instead of an "i"?

In the present tense, regular verbs that end in -ir (like abrir) actually take an -e ending for the "he/she/it" form. So, when talking about "it" (o vento), the verb becomes abre.

How is the "o" at the end of vento pronounced?

In European Portuguese, an unstressed o at the end of a word is typically reduced to an "oo" sound (like in the English word "moon"). Because the stress in vento is on the first syllable, it is pronounced more like "ven-too".

The word order is exactly the same as in English. Is that normal?

Yes! For basic statements, Portuguese uses the exact same Subject-Verb-Object order as English. O vento (the subject) comes first, then the action abre (the verb), followed by a janela (the object receiving the action).