The
"The" in Portuguese
a
(article)
as
(article)
o
(article)
o
(used as an alternative to a possessive pronoun before body parts)
o
(this)
o
(stressed, indicating that the object in question is the only one worthy of attention)
o
(with an adjectival noun, as in “the hungry” to mean “hungry people”)
o
(with a superlative)
o
(used with the name of a member of a class to refer to all things in that class)
os
(article)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.