How to count in Portuguese (Brazil)

Enter a number and read it spelled out in Portuguese (Brazil).

Language overview

Brazilian Portugues (português brasileiro) is a romance language from the indo-european family. Originating from Portugal, it has evolved separately from European Portuguese since the 16th century, both in spelling and pronunciation. It is regulated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters (Academia Brasileira de Letras). Nowadays spoken by roughly 170 million people in Brasil alone, it is also spoken in Portugal, in five African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe) as well as in Macau and East Timor where the European Portuguese or a creole of it is in use.

Portuguese (Brazil) numbering rules

  • Digits and numbers from zero to fifteen are specific words, namely zero [0], um [1], dois [2], três [3], quatro [4], cinco [5], seis [6], sete [7], oito [8], nove [9], dez [10], onze [11], doze [12], treze [13], catorze [14], quinze [15]. Sixteen to nineteen are regular numbers, i.e. named after the ten and the digit, and written phonetically: dezesseis [10 and 6], dezessete [10 and 7], dezoito [10 and 8], dezenove [10 and 9].
  • The tens have specific names based on the digits roots except for ten and twenty: dez [10], vinte [20], trinta [30], quarenta [40], cinqüenta [50], sessenta [60], setenta [70], oitenta [80] and noventa [90].
  • The same applies for the hundreds: cem [100] (plural centos), duzentos [200], trezentos [300], quatrocentos [400], quinhentos [500], seiscentos [600], setecentos [700], oitocentos [800], novecentos [900].
  • Tens and units are linked with e (and), as in trinta e cinco [35], as well as hundreds and tens (e.g.: cento e quarenta e seis [146]), but not thousands and hundreds, unless the number ends with a hundred with two zeroes (e.g.: dois mil e trezentos [2,300], but dois mil trezentos e sete [2,307]). E is also used to link thousands and units (e.g.: quatro mil e cinco [4,005]).
  • The main differences between Brazilean Portuguese and Portuguese from Portugal is on one hand the spelling of some numbers (e.g.: dezessete (B) vs. dezassete (P) [17], cinqüenta (B) vs. cinquenta (P) [50]), and on the other hand, the difference of scale. Brazil uses the short scale where every new word greater than a million is one thousand times bigger than the previous term, whereas Portugal uses the long scale (where the one thousand factor is replaced by one million). For example, um bilhão in Brazil is 109 (one billion in the US), and 1012 in Portugal (where 109 is mil milhões, or 1,000 million).

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Numbers list

1 – um
2 – dois
3 – três
4 – quatro
5 – cinco
6 – seis
7 – sete
8 – oito
9 – nove
10 – dez
11 – onze
12 – doze
13 – treze
14 – catorze
15 – quinze
16 – dezesseis
17 – dezessete
18 – dezoito
19 – dezenove
20 – vinte
30 – trinta
40 – quarenta
50 – cinqüenta
60 – sessenta
70 – setenta
80 – oitenta
90 – noventa
100 – cem
1,000 – um mil
one million – um milhão
one billion – um bilhão
one trillion – um trilhão

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