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Portuguese alphabet and characters

The Portuguese alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Romance languages.

Lower-case characters:

Portuguese alphabet (lowe case)

Upper-case characters

Portuguese grammar rules

Nouns

There are two grammatical genders in Portuguese:

masculine
feminine

And two numbers

singular
plural

The Latin case system has been lost, but personal pronouns are still declined for subject, object of verb and object of preposition.

Verbs

Portuguese formatting rules

Date formats

First day of the week	Sunday (traditionally), Monday (as per ISO 8601)
Working days	Monday to Friday
Short date format	d/M/yyyy
	e.g. 24/3/2016
Long date format	d de MMMM de yyyy
	e.g. 24 de março de 2016

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 11,50
Thousand separator	. (period)
	e.g. 2.000, not 2000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using period
	e.g. 20.000.000,00, not 20,000,000.00
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C Exception: 10%, not 10 %
Polish currency name	euro
Currency symbol	€
Currency symbol position	located before or after the number, preceded by a space
	e.g. 100 € or € 100; 100.000,00 € or € 100.000,00

Portuguese capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

People’s names.
Geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
Always follow the capitalization used in the English text.

Should NOT be capitalised

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