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Portuguese Pronouns: When Do You Drop Them, and Why?

In Portuguese, pronouns aren’t always directly articulated like they are in English. Instead, the pronoun is dropped from the sentence, w...

Progressive Portuguese Tenses: Gerund or Infinitive?

In this post, we look at a common kind of Portuguese tense: progressive tenses. These are relatively straightforward in some ways, but how...

Portuguese Verbs: Expressing Wishes and Desires

Expressing wishes and desires is one of the most important things to work on when learning a foreign language, because being able to say w...

How to “Be Able To” in Portuguese

The Portuguese verb poder is one of the most common in the language. The infinitive form doesn’t have a direct translation in English, bu...

Portuguese Conjugation: Using the Past Participle

The past participle is a common part of everyday speech. If you learn the Portuguese conjugation rules for it, you’ll make your Portugues...

Portuguese Plurals: Using them Might Be Harder than You Think

Portuguese plurals, like many areas of Portuguese grammar, are more complicated than English ones, and there are more things to learn. To...

Portuguese Verbs: Making and Doing

In this post, we’ll look at how to talk about making and doing things in Portuguese. This important part of everyday speech involves usin...

Portuguese Personal Pronouns in the Second Person: Tu, Você, or Vós?

In English, personal pronouns in the second person are very straightforward. There’s just one word: you. English learners of foreign lang...

Portuguese Grammar: Double Negatives

The rules of English and Portuguese grammar are quite different when it comes to double negatives. When you learn with one of our tutors,...

Portuguese Demonstrative Pronouns: How to Talk about This, These, That, and Those

Portuguese demonstrative pronouns don’t work in quite the same way as their English counterparts. In English, there’s a binary distinctio...

Unraveling the Portuguese Subjunctive Mood

The subjunctive mood is one of the most notoriously tricky parts of Portuguese grammar to master. It’s particularly tough for native Engl...

The Portuguese Present Tense and How to Use It

The Portuguese present tense is fundamental to the majority of Portuguese vocabulary. Having a basic grasp of it will help you in a wide ...

Indefinite Portuguese Pronouns: Talking about Nothing and Everything

In this post we’ll look at a particular type of Portuguese pronouns: indefinite pronouns. Although not as common as personal pronouns, th...

The Portuguese Future Tenses: Learn the Different Types

The future tense comes up a lot in everyday situations, whether we’re planning business strategies, talking about our dreams or ambitions...

The Portuguese Past Tense: Which One Should I Use?

For an English speaker, learning how to use the past tense in Portuguese can be tricky. There are three basic types of Portuguese past te...

Portuguese Verb Conjugation: An Introduction to the Rules

Portuguese verb conjugation is very complex. Portuguese has a more complicated system of moods and tenses than almost any other Romance l...

The Portuguese Imperative Mood: How to Phrase Requests, Instructions, and Commands

The Portuguese imperative mood is used for instructions, requests, commands, and similar phrases and sentences. This area of Portuguese g...

Numbers in Portuguese: How to Use Ordinal Numbers

After learning the cardinal numbers in Portuguese, you’ll also find it useful to learn ordinal numbers: the numbers defining an object’s ...

Portuguese Grammar: An Introduction to Moods

Grammatical moods are something English speakers don’t tend to think about too much—in fact, some of us aren’t even aware of their existe...

Portuguese Grammar: Definite and Indefinite Articles

Articles are a typical example of the differences between English and Portuguese grammar. In English there are three articles, the defini...

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