Building a Sentence
Now, let us take a look at the different ways of building a sentence. For instance, the question - What are you doing? In Brazil, it would be translated as O que você está fazendo? Whereas in Portugal, it would certainly be O que tu estás a fazer?. You can see that Brazilians use the pronoun você as their favorite pronoun and the same structure of the English language: the present of verb to be + main verb in the ing form.
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Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese (Part 1)
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you my good friend, Débora Fontenelle, creator, and author of Crônicas e Cores de Débora Fontenelle, who is our guest post writer. She attended the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and earned a language teacher diploma for both Portuguese and English. Thank you, Debbie, for writing this great and clarifying post about the differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese.
Brazilian or
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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
Heads Up
Well, There is a tricky thing about numbers one and two; they also
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Build Your Vocabulary With Cognates
Did you know that you can build your vocabulary with cognates? Do you know what they are? They are nouns in the target language - the language you are learning - that have similar spelling and the same meaning as in your native language. So, those words already exist in your active vocabulary in your own language. Now, you just have to adapt them into the new language.
Cognates Ending in -Ty
Let’s take a look at those words in that end in -ty
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Popular Slang Words in Brazil
As in any other country, people in Brazil create new ways of speaking and expressing themselves which result in tons of slang words. And as Brazil is a large country, there will be a variety of expressions used in the different regions. In this post, I'm concentrating in the southeast of Brazil which is the area where I spent most of my life, unless I mention some other area beside the term. Obviously, these expressions aren't always appropriate
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Portuguese Nouns
Masculine and Feminine Nouns
Nouns are words that label objects, animals or people. Portuguese nouns have only two genders - masculine and feminine. That means that there is no neutral gender in Portuguese as there is both in English and German.
In general, a masculine nouns ends in a o, and a feminine noun ends in a. So, the best way to tell whether a noun is either masculine or feminine is by checking if the word ends in an o for
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Greetings And Expressions In Portuguese
Brazilian people are very expressive and very friendly. Most importantly, they know when to be informal and when to be formal. Of course, if they are talking to friends or family, there's no need for formalities. However, if they're talking to an older person, their bosses, or someone who has authority, they talk with all due respect.
Greetings
Two Ways of Saying hi: Olá! or Oi!
Morning greeting: Bom dia!
Afternoon greeting: Boa
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