Prepositional Contractions (em)

Contrações Preposicionais (em)

Introduction

Introdução

Prepositional contractions are when certain prepositions combine with other words usually for the purposes of maintaining a flowing sound to the language.

In this lesson you will learn the contractions that the word em (in, on) forms with the definite articles o, a, os, and as (the) and indefinite articles um, uma, uns, umas (a).

Vocabulary

Vocabulário

Play nas
on the feminine plural
Play num
on a masculine
Play numa
on a feminine
Play nuns
on some masculine

Phrases

Frases

Play Eu subi na escada.
I climbed up the ladder.

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