葡萄牙语语法之冠词

 DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE ARTICLE 

Gender 

Nouns have two genders, masculine and feminine. Some nouns (professions, persons, animals) have both masculine and feminine form (E.g. a amiga and o amigo, a irmã (sister), o irmão (brother)). 

Indefinite 

	masculine	feminine
singular	um (carro)	uma (casa)
plural	(alg)uns (carros)	(alg)umas (casas)

In theory indefinite plural form has article, but in practise the plural is just the noun alone. (Alg)uns or (alg)umas can be used to emphasize the meaning "some". So this table in practise would look like this: 

	masculine	feminine
singular	um (carro)	uma (casa)
plural	(carros)	(casas)

Indefinite article merges with with de and em prepositions. 

Definite 

	masculine	feminine
singular	o (carro)	a (casa)
plural	os (carros)	as (casas)

Definite article merges with a, de, em and por prepositions.