In spite of this, modern Portuguese has for the most part kept the medieval spelling.

Thus, in modern colloquial European Portuguese, the classical paradigm above is modified to (differences emphasized):

There are linguists who deal with modern Galician and modern Portuguese as norms or varieties of the same language.

The ancestry of modern Portuguese has been influenced by the many people which have passed on its territory throughout history.

In modern Portuguese, the word used for the bird, albatroz, is in turn derived from English albatross.

In modern Portuguese it indicates nasalization of the base vowel: mão "hand", from Lat.

Note that in modern Portuguese, the word "dinheiro" means "money".

In modern Portuguese, the correct spelling is "Macau".

Chaves is a modern Portuguese and old Spanish word meaning "keys", and may refer to:

The use of the auxiliary verb haver to form the future perfect is, however, very rare in modern Portuguese.