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Portuguese Vocabulary for Going to the Beach: 50 Nouns and 10 Verbs

Whatever your reason for traveling, if you visit Portugal or particularly Brazil you’ll be quite likely to make a trip to the seaside. Bo...

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...

40 Portuguese Words for Geography: Talking about Valleys, Hills, and Rivers

Although they are most famous for their cities, both Portugal and Brazil have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. If you lik...

50 Portuguese Words and 10 Phrases for Talking About Your Job

Work is a common subject of conversation, and knowing some Portuguese words and phrases in this area will be useful if you’re traveling t...

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...

35 Portuguese Words for Talking About Studying

If you’re studying Portuguese, it’s highly probable that at some point you’ll want to talk in Portuguese about your studies. Beyond that,...

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...

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...

How to Use 30 Essential Portuguese Words for Discussing Personality

People love to talk about other people, and gossiping is a great way to get to know someone (as long as it’s not malicious!). By knowing ...

40 Helpful Portuguese Words for Talking about Emotions

People talk about how they’re feeling all the time. If you can do this in Portuguese, and understand what others are saying, you’ll find ...

Paying Compliments in Portuguese

By paying compliments, we make the people around us feel good, and by raising their spirits we in turn make ourselves feel better and imp...

40 Portuguese Phrases about Points in Time and Making Appointments

Wherever you are in the world, collaborative scheduling is a fundamental social skill; everybody makes plans for the future, and these pl...

Portuguese Vocabulary for Shopping: 50 Essential Words and Phrases

If you have to spend any time in a Portuguese-speaking country, one thing you’ll definitely need is Portuguese vocabulary for shopping—yo...

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 ...

25 Portuguese Phrases for Talking About Your Health

Nobody wants to find themselves in a situation where they require the services of medical professionals, particularly in a country that s...

50 Parts of the Body in Portuguese

Words for parts of the body are common, everyday vocabulary. There are various situations in which it can be useful to know how to talk a...

How to Conjugate 5 Essential Portuguese Verbs

Learning Portuguese verbs is crucial to learning the language as a whole. Whilst there are thousands of verbs, and many more thousands of...

7 Essential Portuguese Prepositions

Portuguese prepositions, much like conjunctions, have meanings and uses that do not allow for direct, word-for-word translations to Engli...

Portuguese Grammar: 15 Common Conjunctions

In some areas of Portuguese grammar, translations tend to be direct equivalents of the English words—for example, nouns, being words that...

42 Words for Clothes in Portuguese

Clothes are common, everyday objects, and the vocabulary related to them is useful to memorize when learning Portuguese. Apart from a han...

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