How do you say years in Portuguese?
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A2 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Picked for people who know a little
Portuguese strings every place-value of a number together with e (and). The year 1975 is mil novecentos e setenta e cinco, one thousand and nine hundred and seventy and five. The same rule applies to 2024 (dois mil e vinte e quatro) and to dates like 9 de fevereiro de 1975. Spanish often drops the y between hundreds and tens (mil novecientos setenta y cinco); English drops and almost everywhere except after hundred (nineteen seventy-five). Portuguese keeps every connector, which makes Portuguese numbers sound longer and more spelled-out than their Romance neighbors. Brazilian and European Portuguese share this rule.
In this clip, a narrator runs through a birthday-and-age sequence: “Eu nasci em mil novecentos e setenta e cinco... Em que ano nós estamos? Em dois mil e nove.”
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Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.
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- ▸In Portuguese-language language-learning channels (Speaking Brazilian, Practice Portuguese)
- ▸In Brazilian children’s school math lessons reading numbers aloud
- ▸In Portuguese music with year references (Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Amália Rodrigues)
- ▸In Portuguese-language sports commentary on game scores and dates