How to Say "You Are Beautiful" in Portuguese

With over 200 million Portuguese speaking people in the world, there might come a day you’d like to tell one they are beautiful. “You are beautiful” in English translates to “você é bonito” in Portuguese. Of course, there may be alternate versions and pronunciations. Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese spoken in Portugal vary with differences in vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Você é: Pronounce vo-say-ah. The “vo” has a long o sound.

2. Bonito, which means beautiful: Pronounce: bo-ni-to. Or, for another pronunciation, put the following three English words together: bow – knee – toe.

3. Say all together: vo-say-ah-bow-knee-toe. Which will be spelled “você é bonito”.

Tips & Warnings

• Pronunciation is approximate. To get the correct accent, practice your Portuguese with a beautiful Portuguese speaking person.

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on 1/28/2009 "Você é bonito" means You're a handsome guy! (''bow + Knee + thoo'') From Latin bonus.

Você é linda/ belíssima/ pulcra! = gorgeous female
bela = beautiful female. From bonus diminutive, bellus/bella. Você é uma formosura!
Grácil, gracinha = gracious

Você é mó gatinha/gata! You're such a cutie/babe!

Colírio (eyesalve), mó visual, mó visu, visualzão, colírio para os olhos, pintura, deleite para os olhos, olhos se refestelam, doce pros olhos = a looker, eye candy

pão, pão-de-ló, gato, gatão, bonitão, um tipão, galã, galant = handsome guy.
bofe tudo-de-bom, bofe or bofão, bofiscândalo = a hunk, a stud-muffin. Apolíneo, Atlante, Adônis, Apollo. bonitinho = a cutie
bem-apessoado, sujeito boa-pinta, você com essa pinta toda, carinha presença = handsome guy

gostosão/gostosa, tesudo/a = a hottie (masc/fem)

venusto/a = venust, handsome or beautiful like the child of Venus