How do you pronounce

[roy4eyes]

Obrigado/a = Thank you
Obrigad = Thanks
Obrig = Ta

[cereza]

While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.

In Lisbon they would pronounce the end as "Oh" as in obrigado but the Algarvians tend to disregard the last syllable and so it comes out as "oo" but fading away so that it is barely heard.

Not sure where you heard that Cereza, the Algarveans would say 'obrigad' with no 'o' at all!

Probably in Ferragud

[cloudchaser49]

Hi all,
many thanks for clearing up my question on pronouncing Ferragudo.

Tony

[maccasa]

Obrigado is "thank you" - accurate, polite, portuguese, male response. Obrigada - same but from a female. Obrigad(e) is equivalent to just "thanks"

[blue]

Exatamente.
Though I often get the obrigado response from Portuguese females these days, in shops & restaurants & just in general. I nearly always say obrigada rather than just obrigad but then I nearly always say thank you rather than thanks.

[ditzy]

It should always be 'obrigado/a', I'm quite sure 'obrigad' is a question of accent and a lazy one at that. Don't even get me started on 'brigad'...

[pato]

While on the subdject of pronouncing things I have always wondered how to say Ferragudo, is it Ferragoodoo or Ferragoodo? or something else?

Tony.

In Lisbon they would pronounce the end as "Oh" as in obrigado but the Algarvians tend to disregard the last syllable and so it comes out as "oo" but fading away so that it is barely heard.

Not sure where you heard that Cereza, the Algarveans would say 'obrigad' with no 'o' at all!

O!

[EMM]

What about obrigadinio/a which we have also heard ?

[roy4eyes]

When I read maccassa's info I got a sense of deja vu. Wonder why ?

[ditzy]

What about obrigadinio/a which we have also heard ?

The longer obrigadinho is more like thanks (go figure), but the Algarveans often use the diminutive in most words (peixinho com batatinha frita, for example)