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

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

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

The Portuguese verb poder is one of the most common in the language. The infinitive form doesn’t have a direct translation in English, but it means “to be ab...

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

Portuguese plurals, like many areas of Portuguese grammar, are more complicated than English ones, and there are more things to learn. Today, we’ll go throug...

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

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

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

Portuguese demonstrative pronouns don’t work in quite the same way as their English counterparts. In English, there’s a binary distinction between “this/thes...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 existence until we start t...

Articles are a typical example of the differences between English and Portuguese grammar. In English there are three articles, the definite article “the,” an...