"It is probably my wife."

Translation: É provavelmente a minha esposa.

[ironyisoverrated]

I don't know why, but I can never type "provavelmente" without making a typing error!

[Paulenrique]

Provavelmente isso desaparecerá com o tempo ;)

[ironyisoverrated]

Você porv...provalev...probavel...pravo...provem...provavelmente está certo!

[Paulenrique]

hahahahaha FUNNY!! =)

[kazu553315]

Is there a rule to convert from Spanish spelling to Portuguese? It is so confusing...

[Tantela]

Why do we have the A here, Why not é provavelmente minha esposa

[Paulenrique]

No, it is opitional when you have "possessive+noun".

[Silverychris]

could this also mean : "it is probably my wife's" the 'a" here meaning "to her" ?

[Paulenrique]

No. The possessive is made up by using de, da(s), do(s). So, you'd say "é provavelmente da minha esposa".

[Silverychris]

ótimo obrigago ! (Can I even say that ? at least that's what i feel right now :))

[Paulenrique]

Yes, just don't forget the comma: ótimo, obrigado!

[Silverychris]

muitissimo obrigado then :)

[Silverychris]

oh that was on purpose... I thought "ótimo obrigado" could be an even more grateful form of "muito obrigado"... is it possible ?

[Paulenrique]

To emphasize we use "muitíssimo obrigado" =)

[o_scott]

why isn't "estar" used instead of "ser"? isn't the latter used for inherent or immutable characteristics. the statement is not one of certainty; it might be his namorada or his macaca or the plumber.

[otti361719]

Can one use "minha marida"?

[Paulenrique]

No, the word "marida" does not exist.

[TrixieShed]

Marido but not marida ?
I am learning Portuguese with a teacher in the Algarve and there are subtle differences - correct for my teacher from Lisboa but wrong for Duolingo. Is Duolingo Brazilian Portuguse?

[TrixieShed]

Still confused by the reasons that "mulher" / "esposa "is wrong in one sentence and right in another

[Rich.Smith]

I'm not quite getting the difference between mea and minha, meu and minho. Is it a difference between "my" and "mine" or something else?

[meanders-us]

It took me forever to understand, too. Meu is the masculine form, and minha is the feminine form. Simple example: meu cachorro, minha gata.

[rosiewlf]

Sooooo, "meu esposa" is incorrect because "meu/minha" refers to the gender of the noun (esposa) not the gender of the speaker?

This still trips me up.

[inshadeone]

The adjective gender and ninumber is matched to the noun, which that adjective describes, IRRESPECTIVE of the speaker's gender.

[Otaku2Learn]

Eu tenho uma pergunta. I had put "É provavelmente minha a esposa" and yet got it wrong, did the placement of the "a" matter O.o?

[kpferdeort]

Yes the placement matters. If you translate literally into English it should look like "the my wife." Other examples : The our daughters, the your mother, the her father, etc. Yes it feels totally wrong for an English speaker. And no, don't actually translate anything like this, it's just a memory aid! :)