Plurals

Let's eat!

Now it's time for some new verb endings! Let's see how comer changes with eles, elas, vocês, and nós.

Nós comemos pão.

We eat bread.

Vocês comem pão.

You all eat bread.

Eles comem pão.

You all eat bread.

Elas comem pão.

They eat bread.

From now on, we’ll use you for você and you all for vocês. This way you’ll know when we're talking about one person or multiple people!

To be or not to be

Some verbs, like ser, have very special forms that don’t follow any pattern.

subject	verb
eu I	sou am
você you ele he / it ela she / it	é are / is
nós we	somos are
vocês you all eles they elas they	são are

Put an s on it!

In English, we usually just add an s to a word to make it plural, like girl becoming girls.

It’s the same in Portuguese! But here’s a twist: you also add ‑s to o and a.

And did you notice? If a word ends with a consonant, like mulher, you’ll need to add ‑es to make it plural.

Take note, though: a few words change a bit more! If a word ends in ‑m, the plural ends in ‑ns. For words ending in ‑l, the plural ends in ‑is.