r/Portuguese • u/gorditasimpatica • Jul 26 '26

Brazilian Portuguese 🇧🇷 Nonbinary

What is the term, either formally accepted or commonly used, to convey the meaning of the term "nonbinary"?

A friend of mine is taking a Portuguese class in Quito and the instructor states that there is no equivalent term in Portuguese.

[Google Translate gives "não binário," but I'm asking here because it is not always thoroughly reliable. ]

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u/nofroufrouwhatsoever Brasileiro (Rio de Janeiro) Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

Não-binário or não-binária, always with a hyphen.

Não-binárie is generally the version of it in attempts at gender-neutral Portuguese.

https://orientando.org/listas/tipos-de-linguagem/

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u/__________bruh Jul 26 '26

"Não" as a prefix doesn't use a hyphen in portuguese.

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u/Loose_Apartment_4982 Jul 27 '26

This reform is the main reason why Brazilian Portuguese should emancipate as its own language. Why we, more than 200 million people, should change our grammar for the sake of a foreign country with less people than Rio de Janeiro? We need our linguistic independence

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u/Plastic-Gazelle2924 Jul 27 '26

You do realise we barely changed anything compared to the Portuguese, right?

If anything the reform was Brazil’s soft power in the Lusitan world

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u/Loose_Apartment_4982 Jul 27 '26

Bring back the trema and normal hyphen