When travelling around Brazil, there are three verbs you’ll use all the time – ir (to go), vir (to come) and chegar (to arrive). Whether you’re navigating a bus station, meeting friends, or just explaining your plans, these verbs are essential tools for every traveller. Ir (to go) – movement away from where you are: […]
This page outlines the use of the simple past tense in Brazilian Portuguese. The simple past tense is also called the preterite, or pretérito perfeito (past perfect) tense. There are in fact several ways to refer to something that happened in the past in Brazilian Portuguese. The simple past tense is used to refer to
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Unlike regular verbs, irregular verbs in Brazilian Portuguese don’t follow typical patterns of conjugation. Some of the most frequently used verbs in Brazilian Portuguese are irregular and need to be memorised. See below for conjugations of some frequently used irregular verbs in the present tense in Brazilian Portuguese: Ter (to have) Eu tenho Ele/Ela tem
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This page lists common regular verbs in Brazilian Portuguese and examples of regular verb conjugations in the present tense. Along with nouns, verbs make up the main parts of a sentence. Having verbs in your vocabulary will enable you to build sentences and communicate clearly. A number of websites offer tools to help you conjugate
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This page outlines the use of object pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. Object pronouns help to avoid unnecessary repetition of nouns, allowing language to flow more easily. The object of a sentence is the noun that receives the action, for example, in the sentence, “Helen emailed Mark”, Mark is the recipient of the action and is
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This page outlines use of demonstratives in Brazilian Portuguese. Demonstratives are words used to point to, or to draw attention to people or things. In Brazilian Portuguese, demonstratives must agree in gender (masculine, feminine or neutral), number (singular or plural) and in relative distance to the thing that is being pointed to. Importance of distance
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This page explains the use of prepositions and contractions in Brazilian Portuguese. Prepositions come before a noun or pronoun and are used to show where or when something is in relation to something else. For example, words such as ‘in’, ‘on’ and ‘at’ indicate where an action is taking place e.g. at the beach. Other
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This page outlines use of grammatical gender in Brazilian Portuguese. Like other Romance languages including French and Italian, Brazilian Portuguese has grammatical gender, which means that most nouns are either masculine or feminine. Other words including pronouns and adjectives will change their endings to agree with the noun they are referring to: my house is
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This page outlines use of adverbs in Brazilian Portuguese. Adverbs modify verbs (e.g. she talks loudly), adjectives (e.g. he is very tall) and other adverbs (e.g. she is almost always late). In English, adverbs are often formed by adding –ly to the end of an adjective (e.g. seriously). Just like in English, Portuguese adverbs (advérbios)
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This page offers a guide to conjugating regular verbs in the present tense in Brazilian Portuguese. When I was at school, we were told that verbs are ‘doing’ words, which describe an action (e.g. she ran away), however, verbs can also express mental actions (e.g. to think) as well as states of being (e.g. to
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