Questions

Notes

  • às 14h- at 2pm
  • às 23h- at 11pm
  • à 1h- at 1am
  • a uma da tarde- at 1 in the afternoon
  • há uma hora- one hour ago
  • à uma em ponto- at 1 sharp
  • ás 16h ❌- incorrect accent
    • às 16h ✔️- Correct accent indicates contraction; means “ace” (like the card)
  • o que vs qual- qual for questions with simple answers; o que requires a bit of explanation
  • que (without “o”)- used in similar scenarios to “qual”
  • Que bonito!- How beautiful!
  • Que fácil! How easy!
  • Use que with interjections
  • O que estás a fazer?- What are you doing?
  • qual- between “what” and “which”
  • Que roupa é essa?- What clothes are you wearing
  • que- can be “what kind”
  • Que tipo porreiro (poo-hi-rroo)!- What a nice guy!
  • Que porreiro da parte dele.- How nice of him! (literally “what nice of his part”)
  • Como vai isso?- How’s it going? (literally “how is going that”)
  • vai- “is going to” or “goes”
  • como (not in a question)- as
  • Batata é tão bom como esparguete.- Potatoes are as good as spaghetti
  • tão bom como- as good as
  • Eu trabalho como professor de português.- I work as a Portuguese teacher (teacher of Portuguese)

Next time

  • Weekdays
  • question words
  • endings for regular verbs
  • some irregular verbs
  • demonstratives
  • study numbers by converting random numbers