Prepositional Contractions (de)

Contrações Preposicionais (de)

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 the word de (from, of) forms with the definite articles o, a, os and as (the); the indefinite articles um, uma, uns, umas (a); and the demonstratives este, esta (this), estes, estas (these), esse, essa (that), esses, and essas (those).

Vocabulary

Vocabulário

Play dumas
of some feminine
Play deste
of this masculine
Play desta
of this feminine
Play destes
of these masculine

Phrases

Frases

Play Eles vem dumas terras distantes.
They come from distant lands.

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