Portuguese (Brazil) A2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 1 flashcards
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100 of the most frequent A2 words of Brazilian Portuguese: everyday verbs, body and health, travel, work and school, feelings, talking and deciding, and describing words, each with an original example sentence and its translation.
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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virar (v.) (eu viro, nós viramos)to turn; to becomeEveryday verbs
No próximo semáforo, você vira à esquerda. — At the next traffic light, you turn left.
Note: virar + noun = to become, in everyday speech: Ele virou médico = He became a doctor. -
crescer (v.) (eu cresço, nós crescemos)to grow; to grow upPeople & family
O meu pai cresceu em Belém e só veio para São Paulo aos vinte anos. — My dad grew up in Belém and only came to São Paulo at twenty.
Watch out: Only things grow by themselves: to grow vegetables is plantar or cultivar, never crescer. -
o controle (n.m.)remote control; controlHome & daily life
Sem o controle, a gente tem que levantar do sofá para mudar de canal. — Without the remote, we have to get up off the sofa to change the channel.
Watch out: Brazil says o controle (remoto); Portugal says o comando and spells the general word controlo. -
o / a cliente (n.m./n.f.)customer, clientFood & shopping
Esse restaurante tem clientes fiéis que voltam toda semana. — This restaurant has loyal customers who come back every week.
Note: o freguês / a freguesa is another word for a regular customer of a shop. -
o futuro (n.m.)futureTime & weather
No futuro, a minha irmã quer trabalhar com robôs. — In the future, my sister wants to work with robots.
Note: Also an adjective: o meu futuro marido = my future husband. -
o cavalo (n.m.)horseNature & the world
Quando era criança, eu andava a cavalo na fazenda do meu avô. — When I was a child, I used to ride horses on my grandfather's farm.
Note: andar a cavalo = to ride (a horse); the female is a égua. -
o programa (n.m.)programme, show; plan (for going out)Free time & culture
Esse programa de TV passa toda noite às nove. — That TV show is on every night at nine.
Watch out: Masculine despite the -a: o programa, like o problema. -
preferir (v.) (eu prefiro, nós preferimos)to preferFeelings & character
Eu prefiro praia, mas o meu marido prefere montanha. — I prefer the beach, but my husband prefers the mountains.
Watch out: The standard pattern is preferir X a Y: Prefiro chá a café; speech often says do que. -
antigo / antiga (adj.)old, ancient; formerDescribing words
Moramos num prédio antigo no centro da cidade. — We live in an old building in the city centre.
Watch out: Before the noun it usually means former: o meu antigo chefe = my ex-boss; old people are velhos or idosos. -
aonde (adv.)where (to)Small words & numbers
Aonde o seu Antônio vai toda manhã de bicicleta? — Where does Mr Antônio go on his bike every morning?
Watch out: Use aonde with verbs of motion (Aonde você vai?) and onde for location (Onde você mora?).
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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 A2 by rank; spelling checked against the Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (Academia Brasileira de Letras) and the 1990 Orthographic Agreement text, European Portuguese forms against the Priberam dictionary, verb forms against the conjugacao.com.br tables, meanings against the Michaelis online dictionary, glosses against the Michaelis and Cambridge Portuguese–English dictionaries, usage against Aulete Digital and phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, and the seat-belt law against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro. Reference only; all example sentences are original.
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