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How to Say ‘It's about ten minutes’ in Portuguese

São uns dez minutos

sowng oonsh DESH mee-NOO-toosh

[sowng oonsh DESH mee-NOO-toosh]

💬 Usage Tip: Placed before a number, uns means "about" or "roughly". Use umas with feminine words, as in umas duas horas "about two hours".

Phrase Breakdown

São uns dez

sowng oonsh DESH

It's about ten

'Uns' before a number means 'about'. 'São' is nasal, and 'dez' sounds like 'desh'.

Example

São uns dez euros.

It's about ten euros.

Words in this phrase

São

[sowng]

are (it comes to)

Third-person plural of 'ser'; used when stating a price in plural units.

Example

São dois euros.

That's two euros.

uns

[oonsh]

about; around

Before numbers, 'uns' means approximately.

Example

Custa uns dez euros.

It costs about ten euros.

dez

[DESH]

ten

The number 10; with times, ten o'clock.

Example

Fechamos às dez.

We close at ten.

minutos

[mee-NOO-toosh]

minutes

Plural of 'minuto', a minute; used to say how long it takes to get somewhere.

Example

A estação fica a dez minutos daqui.

The station is ten minutes from here.

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