Review

  • No todo bem
  • Only e tu estou
  • Não estou lá muito bem :: I’m not that very well
    • “la” here is “that”
  • Review conversations and audio Tasks ✅ 2022-06-29

Questions- Perguntas

  • Questões (kesh-toish)- questions
  • Questão (kush-tao)- question
  • perguntar- ask a question
  • ending in “r”- usually a verb
  • questionar- interrogate
  • fazer uma pergunta- ask a question (literally, to make a question)
    • fazer- to make or to do
  • Como- How
  • O quê- What?
    • circumflex
    • Not rude to say alone like “What?” might be in US, but it is informal
    • When at the beginning of the sentence, drop circumflex
      • pronounced “kuh” instead of “kay”
  • Quem- Who?

Plurals

  • Three different plurals for ão
  • pão pães (bread breads)
  • alemão alemães (German Germans)
  • melão melões (melon melons)
  • cidadão cidadãos (citizen citizens)

Misc

  • Olha! - (o-ya)
  • Olha lá- Think about what you’re about to do
    • I just met a girl, and I’m going to marry her tomorrow
  • café- coffee or the place where you get the coffe
    • espresso unless you ask for something else
  • bica- coffee in Lisbon
  • Don’t have the word “it”
    • Use “isso” instead which is “that”
  • programa- Program (like TV show)
  • fazer- to do / to make
    • a fazer- present continuous (equivalent to the -ing in English “doing”)
  • subject - verb - object structure in Portuguese
    • like in English
  • miúda- girl
  • miúdo- boy
  • rapaz- boy or young man
  • rapariga- girl or young woman
    • prostitute in Brazil
  • guttural “r”- lion
  • flap “r”- serpent
  • cê de cedilha

Slides

Audio