When Brazil was first discovered in1500, by the Portuguese captain Pedro Alvares Cabral, thinking that the new found land was an island, he named it Ilha de Vera Cruz (Island of the True Cross). Considering that the Feast of the Cross was around the corner on the liturgical calendar, May 3, it’s possible that Cabral named it that to honor the Cross.
Soon after realizing that Brazil was not an island, the name was changed from Ilha de Vera Cruz
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Adjectives in Portuguese
Adjectives are words used to describe everything that exists in the world: people, animals, nature and its phenomena, and things. In Portuguese, an adjective must agree in gender and in number with the word that it is describing. Most of the time it is accompanied by a form of verb to be: Ser or Estar.
As we mentioned in our post about nouns, in Portuguese there are two genders which are used to represent not only people and animals, but also
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Letter Sounds In Portuguese
It's possible to create new sounds in Portuguese when combining two letters in pairs like SS, RR, LH, NH, CH; when using accent signs over the vowels (á, é, ó, ú, ê, ô, ã, õ, à); and when using the cedilla under the c - ç. The words used here as examples for the closest sounds in English are not necessarily the translation for the Portuguese words.
The Sound of SS - The Sound of RR
You have already seen in the alphabet post that the s
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Counting in Portuguese
Would you like to learn how to count in Portuguese? It is similar to other Romance languages. So, if you know one of them, it will be very simple. If not, don't worry! It's not difficult.
Here are the numbers from 0 to 10.
0 – zero
1 – um
2 – dois
3 – três
4 – quarto
5 – cinco
6 – seis
7 – sete
8 – oito
9 – nove
10 – dez
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Well, There is a tricky thing about numbers one and two; they also
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