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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.

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Learn deck · part of Portuguese (Brazil) A1–A2 · 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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  1. dever (v.) (eu devo, nós devemos)
    should, ought to; must; to owe

    Você deve beber mais água. — You should drink more water.

    Note: It also means probably: Ele deve estar em casa = He must be at home.
    Essential verbs
  2. esperar (v.) (eu espero, nós esperamos)
    to wait (for); to hope; to expect

    Estou esperando a entrega do sofá novo. — I'm waiting for the new sofa's delivery.

    Watch out: No preposition is needed for English for: esperar o ônibus (esperar pelo ônibus is also correct). Espero que sim = I hope so.
    Everyday verbs
  3. deixar (v.) (eu deixo, nós deixamos)
    to leave (something or someone); to let

    Deixo a bicicleta presa no poste da esquina. — I leave my bike locked to the lamppost on the corner.

    Watch out: Leaving a place is usually sair: sair de casa. With an infinitive it means to let: deixar entrar = to let in.
    Everyday verbs
  4. parecer (v.) (eu pareço, nós parecemos)
    to seem; to look (tired, happy…)

    Seu irmão parece mais velho que você. — Your brother looks older than you.

    Note: To look like someone, you can use se + com: Ela se parece com o avô = She looks like her grandfather.
    Everyday verbs
  5. acontecer (v.) (acontece, acontecem)
    to happen

    Isso acontece toda vez que chove forte. — This happens every time it rains hard.

    Note: Used almost only in the third person: O que aconteceu? = What happened?
    Everyday verbs
  6. voltar (v.) (eu volto, nós voltamos)
    to come back, to go back, to return

    Volto para casa às sete. — I go back home at seven.

    Note: voltar a + infinitive = to do again: Ele voltou a fumar = He started smoking again.
    Town & travel
  7. chegar (v.) (eu chego, nós chegamos)
    to arrive; to get (somewhere)

    O trem chega às nove e meia. — The train arrives at half past nine.

    Watch out: Brazilians say chegar em casa; careful writing uses a: chegar a São Paulo.
    Town & travel
  8. entrar (v.) (eu entro, nós entramos)
    to come in, to go in, to enter; to get into (a car)

    Não dá para entrar no estacionamento sem o cartão. — You can't get into the car park without the card.

    Watch out: It takes em: entrar no carro, entrar na sala.
    Town & travel
  9. escutar (v.) (eu escuto, nós escutamos)
    to listen (to); to hear

    Escuto música no ônibus todo dia. — Every day, on the bus, I listen to music.

    Watch out: No preposition for English to: escutar o rádio.
    Free time & culture
  10. receber (v.) (eu recebo, nós recebemos)
    to receive, to get; to have (guests)

    Recebo muitas mensagens no trabalho. — I get a lot of messages at work.

    Note: receber visitas = to have visitors; receber o salário = to get paid.
    Talking & thinking

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  • 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.

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