{"id":61140,"date":"2023-05-08T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T23:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/portuguese-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T04:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:17:09","slug":"portuguese-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/portuguese\/portuguese-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Complete Guide to Numbers in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a reason why numbers are considered such an essential building block for language learners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We rely on numbers to describe things, run daily errands, plan our schedules and find our way around the various places we need to go. It’s fair to say that numbers are present in every aspect of our lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’ve just started learning Portuguese or need a refresher lesson on numbers, this post will come in handy whether you’re learning Brazilian or European Portuguese<\/a>.\u00a0
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Gender agreement in Portuguese numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you’re new to the language, it’s important to know that some words in Portuguese are either masculine or feminine.<\/p>\n

In some cases, that means you’ll need to make sure that a number agrees with the gender of the object\/subject it’s describing.<\/p>\n

All ordinal numbers (i.e. numbers that show a rank like first, second, third, etc.) have a masculine or feminine counterpart.<\/strong> You’ll find a list of all the essential ordinal numbers and their gendered forms later in this post.<\/p>\n

In contrast, only some cardinal numbers are gendered<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here are the cardinal numbers that follow gender agreement:<\/p>\n