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Portuguese (Brazil) A1 — Core Words: Time, Places, Food & Free Time flashcards

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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.

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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 dinheiro (n.m.)
    money

    Não tenho dinheiro para o cinema hoje. — I don't have money for the cinema today.

    Note: em dinheiro = in cash: Vou pagar em dinheiro = I'll pay in cash.
    Food & shopping
  2. pagar (v.) (eu pago, nós pagamos)
    to pay (for) (particípio: pago)

    Hoje eu pago o almoço. — Today I'm paying for lunch.

    Watch out: No preposition before what you pay for: pagar o almoço, pagar a conta; with a price, use por: paguei 20 reais pelo almoço.
    Food & shopping
  3. a volta (n.f.)
    return, way back; a turn, a stroll

    Depois do almoço, vamos dar uma volta pela feira? — Shall we have a wander round the market after lunch?

    Note: ida e volta = there and back, a round trip; estar de volta = to be back.
    Town & travel
  4. a frente (n.f.)
    front

    O carteiro deixou a caixa na frente do portão. — The postman left the box in front of the gate.

    Note: Siga em frente = Go straight ahead.
    Town & travel
  5. a segunda-feira (n.f.)
    Monday

    Na segunda-feira o restaurante fica fechado. — On Monday the restaurant is closed.

    Note: Everyday speech says just segunda: Até segunda! = See you on Monday!
    Time & weather
  6. a terça-feira (n.f.)
    Tuesday

    A feira do bairro é toda terça-feira. — The neighbourhood street market is every Tuesday.

    Note: In speech just terça; the plural is as terças-feiras.
    Time & weather
  7. o mundo (n.m.)
    world

    No albergue da Paula tem hóspedes do mundo todo. — Paula's hostel has guests from all over the world.

    Note: todo mundo = everybody, with a singular verb: Todo mundo gosta de festa.
    Nature & the world
  8. a terra (n.f.)
    earth, soil; land; home region

    Meu avô planta milho na terra dele. — My grandfather grows corn on his land.

    Note: The planet is written a Terra; a minha terra = my home town, my home region.
    Nature & the world
  9. a história (n.f.)
    story; history

    Essa história é muito engraçada! — That story is really funny!

    Note: One word for both senses: a aula de história = the history class.
    Free time & culture
  10. jogar (v.) (eu jogo, nós jogamos)
    to play (a game, a sport)

    Meus filhos jogam futebol no sábado. — My children play football on Saturday.

    Watch out: Children's play is brincar, and an instrument is tocar.
    Free time & culture

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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 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.

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