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encarcerar-lhes-íamos

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7 syllables
21 characters
Portuguese
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7syllables

encarcerarlhesmos

Linguistic Analysis

Syllables

en-car-ce-rar-lhes-iá-mos

Pronunciation

/ẽ.kɐ.ɾ.se.ˈɾaɾ.lɛʃ.ˈi.ɐ.muʃ/

Stress

0100010

Morphemes

encarcer + ar-lhes-íamos

The word 'encarcerar-lhes-íamos' is a Portuguese verb in the conditional perfect tense, meaning 'we would imprison them'. It's syllabified as en-car-ce-rar-lhes-iá-mos, with stress on 'car'. The syllabification follows standard Portuguese rules based on vowel-consonant sequences and stress patterns.

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1

    We would imprison them.

    We would imprison them.

    Se tivéssemos provas suficientes, encarcerar-lhes-íamos imediatamente.

Stress pattern

Primary stress falls on the penultimate syllable of the root ('car'), following the penultimate stress rule.

Syllables

7
en/ẽ/
car/kɐɾ/
ce/se/
rar/ɾaɾ/
lhes/lɛʃ/
/i.ɐ/
mos/muʃ/

en Open syllable, nasal vowel. car Closed syllable, stressed. ce Open syllable. rar Closed syllable. lhes Closed syllable. Open syllable. mos Closed syllable

Vowel followed by Consonant

Syllables are divided after a vowel when followed by a consonant.

Consonant Cluster

Syllables are divided within consonant clusters when pronounceable as separate sounds.

Penultimate Stress Rule

Stress falls on the penultimate syllable if the last syllable contains only one vowel.

  • Enclitic pronoun 'lhes' treated as a separate syllable.
  • Conditional ending '-íamos' consistently forms a separate syllable.
  • Nasal vowel /ẽ/ in the first syllable.
Analysis by gemma3:27b · 6/8/2025

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