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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.

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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. o senhor / a senhora (n.m./n.f.)
    gentleman, (older) man; lady; Mr; Mrs

    A senhora do apartamento doze tem três gatos. — The lady in apartment twelve has three cats.

    Note: It is also the polite word for you: O senhor quer água? = Would you like some water? (to a man)
    People & family
  2. a pessoa (n.f.)
    person

    Cada pessoa paga vinte reais. — Each person pays twenty reais.

    Watch out: Always feminine, even for a man: Ele é uma pessoa simpática.
    People & family
  3. a mão (n.f.)
    hand

    O bebê segura meu dedo com as duas mãos. — The baby holds my finger with both hands.

    Watch out: Feminine despite the -o: a mão, plural as mãos.
    Body & health
  4. a cabeça (n.f.)
    head

    Psiu, vovó está com dor de cabeça. — Shh, Grandma has a headache.

    Note: dor de cabeça = headache; estar com + a symptom is how Brazilians say they have one.
    Body & health
  5. a luz (n.f.)
    light; electricity

    A luz da cozinha pisca toda vez que alguém liga o micro-ondas. — The kitchen light flickers every time someone turns on the microwave.

    Note: a conta de luz = the electricity bill. Plural luzes.
    Home & daily life
  6. a roupa (n.f.)
    clothes, clothing

    Preciso de roupa nova para o trabalho. — I need new clothes for work.

    Watch out: Usually singular for clothes in general: lavar a roupa = to do the laundry.
    Home & daily life
  7. o trabalho (n.m.)
    work; job

    Meu trabalho começa às nove. — My work starts at nine.

    Note: The verb is trabalhar; no trabalho = at work.
    Work & study
  8. o / a chefe (n.m./n.f.)
    boss

    Minha chefe deixa a gente sair mais cedo na sexta. — My boss lets us leave early on Fridays.

    Watch out: Not a cook in Brazil: a chef is o cozinheiro or o chef (pt-PT also uses o chefe for a head chef).
    Work & study
  9. sentir (v.) (eu sinto, nós sentimos)
    to feel; (sentir-se) to feel (well, sad…)

    Depois da caminhada eu me sinto mais leve. — After the walk I feel lighter.

    Watch out: eu sinto (e → i). Sinto muito = I'm very sorry. With a noun: sentir frio, sentir saudade.
    Feelings & character
  10. achar (v.) (eu acho, nós achamos)
    to think, to reckon; to find

    Acho que o mercado já fechou. — I think the supermarket has already closed.

    Note: Acho que… is the everyday way to give an opinion. It also means to find: Achei a chave!
    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 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.

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