Start your journey learning European Portuguese with our A0-A1 beginner lessons. Perfect for absolute beginners, this category introduces essential vocabulary, basic grammar, and practical sentences for everyday life in Portugal. Explore interactive exercises, listening activities, and simple dialogues designed to help you understand and speak Portuguese with confidence from the very first lesson.
The Object Personal Pronouns in Portuguese are the words for me, you, him, her, it, us, and them. They are divided into three categories in Portuguese: These are also referred to as Pronomes Pessoais Oblíquos Átonos. These are the famous clitic pronouns in Portuguese (or should I say infamous). They are a little trickier to … Read more
Ever wondered how to say the family members’ names in Portuguese, the A Família is for you! Below is a comprehensive list of all the primary and secondary family members and other family-related vocabularies. Fun fact: We celebrate O Dia da Família (Family Day) on the 15th of May. Parents mãe (mother) = ˈmɐ̃j / … Read more
In English, the Pronomes Pessoais Retos are referred to as Subject Personal Pronouns. This is because these pronouns take up the place of the grammatical subject in the sentence. In non-technical words, that means the words for I, you, he, she, it, we and they = the doers of the sentence. What’s 1st person singular? … Read more
The Ultimate Guide for Learners What are personal pronouns in Portuguese? How are they used? Do you need to know them? These may be questions you often have regarding this topic. Let’s find out what they are. In Portuguese, they are referred to as Pronomes Pessoais. What’s a personal pronoun? A personal pronoun (pronome pessoal) … Read more
Por is used to express movement through, cause, or means, while Para is used to express destination, goal, or purpose.Examples: Preposition Meaning Example Para Destination / Goal / Purpose Vou para casa Por Movement through / Cause / Means Envio por email The quickest way to finally clear up this confusion is: stop thinking of … Read more
Learn European Portuguese through comprehensible input. Acquire basic vocabulary and one of the main verbs in Portuguese: o verbo ser. In this video lesson, I’m describing a pineapple to you in Portuguese, using visual queues and simple and basic Portuguese. For a short comprehensible input story for absolute beginners with the verb click here. Learn … Read more
What are the Portuguese stress rules? I like to say there are three main overall Portuguese Pronunciation Rules. And all words will fall into one of these Portuguese accent rules. But before we discuss how they work, it helps to know what a syllable is and what the stress of a word is. What’s a … Read more
Welcome to the Present Tense in Portuguese – Part 3! As we saw in the first lesson here, the verbs in Portuguese can be cumbersome to learn, for those who don’t have this in their native language – like in English for instance. The reason for this part 3 is that there are a few … Read more
In very simple and layman’s terms, the past participle in Portuguese is equivalent to the “ed” form in English (think: closed, worried, cancelled, etc). It’s also a descriptive word, describing the end result of the action. We use it in compound and passive tenses. A particular feature of a participle is that when on its … Read more
You may have heard me say before that Portuguese is a Null-Subject Language. But what does that mean? This means that Portuguese grammar allows us to create a full sentence without an explicit subject (doer) even though it follows the SVO sequence. This is not possible in English, as we always need to include who … Read more