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Seventy prompts on Brazilian A1 essentials: greetings, você vs tu by region, articles and contractions (do, na, pelo, à), ser vs estar, ter and há, the present tense, gostar de and ficar, pretérito perfeito, numbers and time, and nasal vowels and other pronunciation notes.

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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. How do you say good morning, good afternoon and good evening in Portuguese, and why bom in one but boa in the others?
    Bom dia, boa tarde, boa noite.

    dia is masculine; tarde and noite are feminine. Boa noite is both good evening and good night.
    Greetings & courtesy
  2. Which word do most Brazilians use for you, and which verb form goes with it?
    você, with the third-person singular verb: Você fala inglês? The plural is vocês + third-person plural: Vocês falam.

    In speech it is often shortened to cê.
    Você & tu
  3. What are the Portuguese definite and indefinite articles?
    o, a, os, as (the) and um, uma, uns, umas (a, some): o livro, as casas, um amigo, umas ideias.
    Articles & contractions
  4. Conjugate ser in the present tense the way Brazilians use it.
    eu sou, você/ele/ela é, nós somos, vocês/eles/elas são

    With tu: the standard form is tu és; in Brazilian speech tu mostly takes é.
    Ser & estar
  5. Conjugate ter in the present tense. What does the circumflex in têm show?
    eu tenho, você/ele tem, nós temos, vocês/eles têm (tu tens)

    The circumflex marks the plural and tells têm from singular tem.
    Ter & há
  6. What are the present-tense endings of a regular -ar verb such as falar, as Brazilians use them?
    eu falo, você/ele fala, nós falamos, vocês/eles falam (tu falas)

    The same form serves você, ele, ela and a gente, and in Brazilian speech mostly tu as well.
    Present tense
  7. Why is it Gosto do meu trabalho and not Gosto o meu trabalho?
    To like a person, thing or activity, gostar takes de, which fuses with a definite article: Gosto de café. Gosto da praia. Gosto de dançar.
    Gostar & ficar
  8. What does the pretérito perfeito express?
    A completed action in the past: Ontem comi pizza = Yesterday I ate pizza.

    It also covers many English present perfects: Já comi = I've already eaten.
    Pretérito perfeito
  9. Which numbers from 1 to 10 change for feminine nouns?
    um / uma and dois / duas: um livro, uma casa, dois cafés, duas cervejas.

    três, quatro, cinco, seis, sete, oito, nove, dez never change.
    Numbers & time
  10. What does the tilde in ã and õ tell you?
    The vowel is nasal, with air through the nose: lã, irmã; and in the diphthongs ão, ãe, õe: pão, mãe, põe.
    Pronunciation

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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 spelling, the Priberam dictionary for European Portuguese usage, the conjugacao.com.br tables for verb forms, the Cambridge Portuguese-English dictionary and the Ohio State University CLAS Portuguese pronunciation workshop (2021) for pronunciation, Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa and peer-reviewed studies of Brazilian usage (Pereira 2021 and Pinheiro 2020 in Revista de Estudos da Linguagem; Silva & Camacho 2025 and Schmitz in Confluência; Abraçado 2000 in Gragoatá; Scherre, Naro & Yacovenco 2018 in Diadorim; Lucchesi & Rocha 2022 in Lingüística; Menon 2012 in Revista do GELNE; Battisti & Dornelles Filho in Revista da Abralin) for regional and spoken usage, 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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