Portuguese (Brazil) A1–A2 flashcards
11 decks · 896 cards · built into Willys · free samples below
Written against: CEFR A1–A2; Brazilian Portuguese with European variants noted; the vocabulary is 600 of the most frequent everyday words of a Brazilian OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency list, since no Portuguese exam publishes a word list. Updated 2026-10-10.
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Learn · 8 decks · 675 cards
Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.
Core Vocabulary
One hundred A1 words in Brazilian usage: twenty-eight high-frequency verbs with their key forms, sixty everyday nouns and time words with article and gender, and twelve adjectives, with the European Portuguese word noted wherever Portugal says it differently.
Core Words: Adjectives, Numbers & Small Words
47 of the most frequent A1 words of Brazilian Portuguese, with key numbers from zero to a thousand: adjectives of quality, size, colour and state, everyday adverbs and small words, and a few common nouns, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: Everyday Verbs
64 of the most frequent verbs of Brazilian Portuguese after the essentials: waiting and helping, coming and going, starting and stopping, finding, losing and keeping, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: People, Feelings & Ideas
105 of the most frequent Brazilian Portuguese A1 words for people and family, the body and health, the home, work and school, feelings, and talking and thinking, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time
34 of the most frequent A1 words of Brazilian Portuguese, with the days, months and seasons: time, money and shopping, directions and getting around, the world, and games, music and parties, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Phrases & Core Grammar
Seventy prompts on Brazilian A1 essentials: greetings, você vs tu by region, articles and contractions (do, na, pelo, à), ser vs estar, ter and há, the present tense, gostar de and ficar, pretérito perfeito, numbers and time, and nasal vowels and other pronunciation notes.
Core Vocabulary, Part 1
100 of the most frequent A2 words of Brazilian Portuguese: everyday verbs, body and health, travel, work and school, feelings, talking and deciding, and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Core Vocabulary, Part 2
100 of the most frequent Brazilian Portuguese words after A1, part 2: everyday verbs, home, food and travel, feelings, talking and thinking, describing words and small words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
Drills · 2 decks · 181 cards
Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.
In Context: Core Words
Ninety-one Brazilian Portuguese A1 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A1 vocabulary decks (core vocabulary, people, time and places, verbs, describing words) so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
In Context: Core Words
Ninety Brazilian Portuguese A2 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A2 vocabulary, Parts 1–2, so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint.
Practice · 1 deck · 40 questions
Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.
Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.
Study guide
Topics covered
The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.
- Essential verbs 26
- Everyday verbs 107
- People & family 50
- Body & health 28
- Home & daily life 36
- Food & shopping 42
- Town & travel 48
- Time & weather 53
- Work & study 31
- Free time & culture 42
- Feelings & character 50
- Talking & thinking 94
- Describing words 86
- Colour 2
- People 3
- Quality & state 26
- Size & shape 2
- Small words & numbers 76
- Adverbs 7
- Numbers 32
- Quantities 2
- Nature & the world 24
- Greetings & courtesy 10
- Você & tu 5
- Articles & contractions 10
- Ser & estar 11
- Ter & há 5
- Present tense 12
- Gostar & ficar 8
- Pretérito perfeito 10
- Numbers & time 7
- Pronunciation 9
- Family & people 3
- Home 3
- Food & drink 3
- City & travel 3
- Time & calendar 2
- Adjectives 2
A study plan
- 32 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 16 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
- 11 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.
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Every deck is built into Willys
All 11 Portuguese (Brazil) A1–A2 decks (896 cards), with FSRS spaced repetition, quizzes and mock tests, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 14-day free trial, then $14.99 a year.
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About these cards
Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.
Checked against:
- Checked against the Michaelis dictionary, the Academia Brasileira de Letras Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text for post-1990 spelling, the Priberam dictionary for European Portuguese variants, the conjugacao.com.br tables for verb forms, Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa and Aulete Digital for usage questions, Pereira (2021, Revista de Estudos da Linguagem 29(3)) on tu in Brazil, the Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionary for glosses, the OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR frequency list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0) for word frequency, Brazil's pharmacy laws (Lei 5.991/1973 and Lei 13.021/2014, planalto.gov.br) for the term drogaria, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement as promulgated in Brazil (Decretos 6.583/2008 and 7.875/2012), European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, usage against Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa and Aulete Digital, frequency notes against word counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus and Tatoeba's Portuguese sentences (CC BY 2.0 FR), and the driving age and speed-limit wording against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, and usage against Aulete Digital. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary and Aulete Digital, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, and usage against Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa, the Dicio online dictionary and phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A1 by rank, with days, months, seasons and numbers added as a fixed group; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary, glosses against the Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionary, usage notes and participles against Aulete Digital, season dates against the US Naval Observatory's equinox and solstice data (U.S. government, public domain), July school holidays against the 2026 São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul state school calendars, the June festivals' national reach and the term cinto de segurança against Lei 14.900/2024 and the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, and holiday dates against the federal laws that set them (planalto.gov.br). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Checked against the Michaelis dictionary, the Academia Brasileira de Letras Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text for spelling, the Priberam dictionary for European Portuguese usage, the conjugacao.com.br tables for verb forms, the Cambridge Portuguese-English dictionary and the Ohio State University CLAS Portuguese pronunciation workshop (2021) for pronunciation, Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa and peer-reviewed studies of Brazilian usage (Pereira 2021 and Pinheiro 2020 in Revista de Estudos da Linguagem; Silva & Camacho 2025 and Schmitz in Confluência; Abraçado 2000 in Gragoatá; Scherre, Naro & Yacovenco 2018 in Diadorim; Lucchesi & Rocha 2022 in Lingüística; Menon 2012 in Revista do GELNE; Battisti & Dornelles Filho in Revista da Abralin) for regional and spoken usage, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied). All example sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's A1 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Spelling checked against the VOLP (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, meanings against the Michaelis dictionary and verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables; glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, register and regional labels against Aulete Digital and the Priberam dictionary, usage against word counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, the school year against the LDB (Lei 9.394/1996) and press reports of the 2026 state school calendars, the driving age against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, Christmas and Mother's Day against the federal law and decree that set them (planalto.gov.br), and the number of countries against the United Nations list of Member States. All sentences are original.
- Checked against the Michaelis dictionary, the Academia Brasileira de Letras Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text for spelling, the Priberam dictionary for European Portuguese usage, the conjugacao.com.br tables for verb forms, Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa for usage questions, and the Council of Europe CEFR A1 descriptors for level placement (reference only; no text copied).
- Original questions, sentences and short texts written for this deck; no official, textbook or question-bank items were copied.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, usage against Aulete Digital and phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, and the seat-belt law against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), cleaned by hand and banded to A2 by rank; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary and Aulete Digital, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, usage notes against phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, and the passport requirement for travel to Europe against the EU's Your Europe portal (CC BY 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Answers are headwords of this folder's A2 vocabulary decks; word selection follows a frequency list of Brazilian Portuguese content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT), cleaned by hand. Spelling checked against the VOLP (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, meanings against the Michaelis dictionary and verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables; glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, senses and regional labels against the Priberam dictionary and Aulete Digital, usage against phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, the driving age against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, the flag's stars against Lei 5.700/1971 as amended by Lei 8.421/1992 (planalto.gov.br) and a Santa Catarina fire brigade bulletin (CBMSC Boletim Especial 004/2006), and the Santa Catarina coast against the state government's geography page (estado.sc.gov.br). All sentences are original.
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