Portuguese English Notes
 

A cidade onde moro fica no sudeste do Brasil.

 

The city where I live is in the southeast of Brazil. Onde can never be left out.
A cidade em que moro fica no sudeste do Brasil.  

The city which I live in is in the southeast of Brazil.

The city that I live in is in the southeast of Brazil.

The city I live in is in the southeast of Brazil.

 

morar em = to live in
 

O lugar de onde ele veio é muito frio.

 

The place where he comes from is very cold.  

In literary style:

de + onde = donde

O lugar donde ele veio é muito frio.

 

 

O lugar aonde vou é muito bonito.

 

The place where I'm going (to) is very beautiful.  

ir a = to go to

Since ir is a verb of movement and it requires preposition a,

you have to add a to the pronoun:

a + onde = aonde

 


 

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