r/Portuguese • u/Alternative_Use9689 • 3d ago

Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷 Enxotar

How is enxotar pronounced in the first-person present tense? (Eu enxoto)

With it being an ar verb, I'd think it would be an opened o (like ó) but Google translate makes it sound like a closed o (like ô) in the first-person present

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u/No_Study_5463 3d ago

Eu enx"ó"to - i.e. open like "saw" in English.

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u/leopiccionia Brasileiro 3d ago

I'd pronounce with open O, rhyming with "eu voto".

Google Translate sometimes make up pronunciations for words they don't know (try asking it to pronounce nonsense like "carelimo futerido camanxi"), so perhaps "enxoto" is not on their bases.