Preposition Contractions

You can't get through a single Portuguese sentence without one of these. Five prepositions — em, de, a, por, para — fuse with articles into shorter forms. They're not optional; the unfused version sounds wrong.

Preposition + article	Contraction
em + o	no
em + a	na
de + o	do
de + a	da
em + os / em + as	nos / nas
de + os / de + as	dos / das
por + o / por + a	pelo / pela
a + o / a + a	ao / à

Just enough to drill until they're automatic.

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