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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.

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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. ser (v.) (eu sou, nós somos)
    to be (identity, origin, profession, what something is)

    Somos de Recife. — We're from Recife.

    Watch out: Present: sou, é, somos, são (você é, vocês são). Where tu is used, its standard form is és; in Brazilian speech tu mostly takes é (tu é).
    Essential verbs
  2. pegar (v.) (eu pego, nós pegamos)
    to catch (a bus); to pick up, to grab

    Pego o ônibus na esquina. — I catch the bus on the corner.

    Watch out: In Portugal you catch a bus with apanhar: apanhar o autocarro.
    Everyday verbs
  3. a farmácia (n.f.)
    pharmacy, chemist's

    Procuro uma farmácia perto do hotel. — I'm looking for a pharmacy near the hotel.

    Watch out: In Brazil a drogaria is a common synonym, and many sell far more than medicine.
    Body & health
  4. morar (v.) (eu moro, nós moramos)
    to live (somewhere), to reside

    Moro em Belém, num prédio sem elevador. — I live in Belém, in a building with no lift.

    Watch out: Use em, not a: moro em Salvador, moro no Brasil. viver also means to live, and to be alive.
    Home & daily life
  5. sair (v.) (eu saio, nós saímos)
    to go out, to leave

    Saio do trabalho às seis. — I leave work at six.

    Watch out: Present: saio, sai, saímos, saem. Leaving a place takes de: sair de casa.
    Town & travel
  6. o dia (n.m.)
    day

    Na loja, minha mãe trabalha nove horas por dia. — At the shop, my mother works nine hours a day.

    Watch out: Ends in -a but is masculine: bom dia, todo dia.
    Time & weather
  7. ler (v.) (eu leio, nós lemos)
    to read

    Eu leio muitas notícias no celular. — I read a lot of news on my phone.

    Watch out: Present: leio, lê, lemos, leem (no circumflex on leem since the 1990 agreement); past participle lido.
    Free time & culture
  8. gostar (v.) (eu gosto, nós gostamos)
    to like

    Gosto muito de música brasileira. — I really like Brazilian music.

    Watch out: To like a person or thing, use gostar de, and de fuses with the article: Gosto do Brasil, gosto da praia.
    Feelings & character
  9. bom / boa (adj.)
    good (bom / boa / bons / boas)

    Esse restaurante é muito bom. — This restaurant is very good.

    Watch out: The adverb is bem: Ela canta bem, not "bom".
    Describing words
  10. a gente (n.f.)
    people; (in Brazilian speech) we

    A gente se vê amanhã! — See you tomorrow!

    Watch out: As we it takes the singular verb: a gente vai = we're going (same meaning as nós vamos).
    Small words & numbers

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  • 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.

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