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How to Say ‘It's five kilometres away’ in Portuguese

Fica a cinco quilómetros

FEE-kah ah SEEN-koo kee-LOH-meh-troosh

[FEE-kah ah SEEN-koo kee-LOH-meh-troosh]

💬 Usage Tip: Use ficar a plus a distance to say how far away a place is. Swap in a time too: Fica a dez minutos "It's ten minutes away".

Phrase Breakdown

Fica a cinco

FEE-kah ah SEEN-koo

It's (located) five

'Fica' (it's located) is used for places. 'A' here means 'at a distance of'. 'Cinco' sounds like 'SEEN-ku'.

Example

Fica a cinco minutos.

It's five minutes away.

Words in this phrase

Fica

[FEE-kah]

is (located)

Form of 'ficar'; used to say where something is located.

Example

O hotel fica perto da praia.

The hotel is near the beach.

[ah]

Preposition used for a point in time.

Example

Chego a essa hora.

I arrive at that time.

cinco

[SEEN-koo]

five

The number 5.

Example

Somos cinco pessoas.

We are five people.

quilómetros

[kee-LOH-meh-troosh]

kilometres

Plural of 'quilómetro', unit of distance equal to 1000 metres.

Example

Corri dez quilómetros.

I ran ten kilometres.

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