Questions

  • Prazer em conhece-lo/la
    • Gender is based on my gender or the person I’m speaking with?
    • Dictated by the person you’re speaking to
    • Prazer em conhecê-los!- Nice to meet you guys
    • Prazer em conhecê-las!- Nice to meet you ladies
    • Direct object pronoun- answers “who” or “what”
    • Indirect object pronoun- answers “to whom” or “to what”
    • Eu vou dar-lhe um presente.- I’m going to give you (formal), him, or her the gift
    • Obrigado is the only word that depends on speaker gender
    • Obrigar- to obligate
    • Sinto-me obrigado a comer os vegetais.- I feel obliged or compelled to eat the vegetable

Notes

  • domicílio
  • emergências
  • Estregas ao domicílio- home delivery (deliveries to the home)
  • Conjugation of verbs in past simple tense (past tense)
    • Pretérito Perfeito
  • Eu comi batatas fritas.- I ate french fries.
  • Don’t eat meals in Portuguese; they take them
  • sobremesa (soo-bruh-mez-uh)- dessert
  • neither… nor…- nem… nem…
    • nao before verb too
  • veganos
  • os veganos nao comeram nem carne nem ovos- The vegans didn’t eat meat nor eggs.
  • responderam/responderão
    • First is past, second is future
    • Tonal syllable second-to-last vs. last
  • pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconioticamente- A dust disease related to very small volcanic particles of flint in the lungs
    • Next class -ir/ -ar