Review
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)
- 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
- miúda- girl
- miúdo- boy
- rapaz- boy or young man
- rapariga- girl or young woman
- guttural “r”- lion
- flap “r”- serpent
- cê de cedilha
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