This page outlines vocabulary for colours in Brazilian Portuguese. ‘Colours’ translates to cores in Brazilian Portuguese. To ask what colour something is, say que cor é essa? (‘what colour is it?’). Colours as adjectives When colours are used as adjectives to tell us more about the noun, they must agree with the noun in gender
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This page outlines how to talk about countries and nationalities in Brazilian Portuguese. One of the most common questions you’ll be asked in Brazil is where you’re from: Where are you from? De onde você é? What is your nationality? Qual é a sua nacionalidade? I am from Portugal Sou de Portugal I am Portuguese
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This page offers a guide to greetings and goodbyes in Brazilian Portuguese. Olá e bem-vindo (hello and welcome). Greetings words are amongst the most basic to learn in a foreign language and also the most important. Words and phrases like ‘hello’ and ‘how are you?’ help to break the ice and open the way to
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This post talks about holidaying in Brazil and offers some key vocabulary, which you may find useful for your own trip. Travelling to Brazil is the type of holiday that many Brits dream about – in 2018, 154,586 UK nationals visited the country. Despite the distance, Brazil is an easy place to travel to with flights
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This page offers a guide to telling the time in Brazilian Portuguese. Before being able to tell the time, you’ll need a good working knowledge of numbers (see here to learn about numbers in Brazilian Portuguese). Key questions for asking the time in Brazilian Portuguese Que horas são? What time is it? Que horas? What
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When visiting Brazil, it’s clear that food markets and street fairs play a big role in Brazilian life. Food markets in Brazil are a sight to behold because they’re full of exotic fruit (frutas) and veg (vegetais) that you just don’t see in the UK. One of the delights of shopping at food markets in
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This page offers a guide to speaking numbers in Brazilian Portuguese. Numbers in Portuguese are called números. Numbers 1 to 15 Numbers zero to fifteen are specific words, which are listed in the table below: 0 zero 1 um(m)/uma(f) 2 dois(m)/duas(f) 3 três 4 quatro 5 cinco 6 seis 7 sete 8 oito 9 nove
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