Portuguese (Brazil) A1 — In Context: Core Words flashcards
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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.
Drills 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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Ela to be professora de inglês numa escola pública. — She is an English teacher at a state school.Ela é professora de inglês numa escola pública. — She is an English teacher at a state school.Essential verbs
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A minha bisavó quer to live, be alive para ver o casamento do bisneto caçula. — My great-grandmother wants to live to see her youngest great-grandson's wedding.A minha bisavó quer viver para ver o casamento do bisneto caçula. — My great-grandmother wants to live to see her youngest great-grandson's wedding.People & family
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O nosso cachorro dorme num cantinho quente da kitchen, perto do fogão. — Our dog sleeps in a warm corner of the kitchen, near the cooker.O nosso cachorro dorme num cantinho quente da cozinha, perto do fogão. — Our dog sleeps in a warm corner of the kitchen, near the cooker.Home & daily life
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A Júlia pega o bus na frente da padaria e desce perto do hospital. — Júlia takes the bus from outside the bakery and gets off near the hospital.A Júlia pega o ônibus na frente da padaria e desce perto do hospital. — Júlia takes the bus from outside the bakery and gets off near the hospital.Town & travel
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A Argentina é um country vizinho do Brasil. — Argentina is a country next to Brazil.A Argentina é um país vizinho do Brasil. — Argentina is a country next to Brazil.Nature & the world
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A Ana to read no ônibus todo dia, enquanto atravessa a cidade. — Ana reads on the bus every day while she crosses the city.A Ana lê no ônibus todo dia, enquanto atravessa a cidade. — Ana reads on the bus every day while she crosses the city.Free time & culture
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O meu chefe to speak japonês porque morou oito anos em Nagoya. — My boss speaks Japanese because he spent eight years in Nagoya.O meu chefe fala japonês porque morou oito anos em Nagoya. — My boss speaks Japanese because he spent eight years in Nagoya.Talking & thinking
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Tem muita people na rua hoje por causa do carnaval. — There are lots of people in the street today because of carnival.Tem muita gente na rua hoje por causa do carnaval. — There are lots of people in the street today because of carnival.Small words & numbers
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- 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.
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