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I can never get over the way my Brazilian wife pronounces the currency. Singular - hey-ow Plural - hey-I. They're spelled real and reals respectively.
by wefarrell 5y ago
I can never get over the way my Brazilian wife pronounces the currency.
Singular - hey-ow
Plural - hey-I.
They're spelled real and reals respectively.
- zanellato19 5y agoreal and reais, not reals. hey-I on the plural doesn't make a lot of sense to me, you are probably not hearing something she is saying.
- wefarrell 5y agoYou're right there is a very subtle s as the end that I wasn't noticing, especially at the speed of normal conversation.
- samueloph 5y agoThe correct spelling for the plural form is 'reais' (the 'l' from the singular form 'real' becomes an 'i'). I think I've never heard anybody pronounce 'reais' without the sound of s at the end, are you sure she doesn't say it? It's probably something like hey-eyes (hey-eye-shh for cariocas)
- cesarb 5y agoA small historical note: there are/were two different Brazilian currencies called Real. The current one has "reais" as the plural, but the old one had "réis" as its plural form.