Portuguese (Brazil) A2 — In Context: Core Words flashcards
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Ninety Brazilian Portuguese A2 sentences, each blanking one word from the folder's A2 vocabulary, Parts 1–2, 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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Coloquei um chapéu no bebê para to protect (not resguardar, not abrigar, not defender, not preservar) a cabeça dele do sol. — I protected the baby's head from the sun by putting a hat on him.Coloquei um chapéu no bebê para proteger a cabeça dele do sol. — I protected the baby's head from the sun by putting a hat on him.Everyday verbs
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O menino voltou do futebol com lama no face inteiro. — The boy came back from football with mud all over his face.O menino voltou do futebol com lama no rosto inteiro. — The boy came back from football with mud all over his face.Body & health
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Essa loja trata muito bem os customer (not fregueses): sempre dá um desconto para quem volta. — This shop treats its customers very well: it always gives a discount to anyone who comes back.Essa loja trata muito bem os clientes: sempre dá um desconto para quem volta. — This shop treats its customers very well: it always gives a discount to anyone who comes back.Food & shopping
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No ano last, a gente adotou uma cachorrinha de rua. — Last year we adopted a little stray dog.No ano passado, a gente adotou uma cachorrinha de rua. — Last year we adopted a little stray dog.Time & weather
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Ela nunca mais quis andar a horse depois que caiu de um, quando era pequena. — She never wanted to ride again after she fell off a horse as a little girl.Ela nunca mais quis andar a cavalo depois que caiu de um, quando era pequena. — She never wanted to ride again after she fell off a horse as a little girl.Nature & the world
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No sábado, a gente to watch a uma peça infantil com o meu sobrinho de cinco anos. — On Saturday we watched a children's play with my five-year-old nephew.No sábado, a gente assistiu a uma peça infantil com o meu sobrinho de cinco anos. — On Saturday we watched a children's play with my five-year-old nephew.Free time & culture
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A professora fez uma pergunta, mas ninguém sabia a answer. — Nobody had the answer when the teacher posed her question.A professora fez uma pergunta, mas ninguém sabia a resposta. — Nobody had the answer when the teacher posed her question.Talking & thinking
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Depois de seis meses procurando, ele finally (not enfim) achou um apartamento. — After six months of looking, he finally found a flat.Depois de seis meses procurando, ele finalmente / afinal / por fim achou um apartamento. — After six months of looking, he finally found a flat.Small words & numbers
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- Answers are headwords of this folder's A2 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, senses and regional labels against the Priberam dictionary and Aulete Digital, usage against phrase counts from the OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 pt-BR corpus, the driving age against the Código de Trânsito Brasileiro, the flag's stars against Lei 5.700/1971 as amended by Lei 8.421/1992 (planalto.gov.br) and a Santa Catarina fire brigade bulletin (CBMSC Boletim Especial 004/2006), and the Santa Catarina coast against the state government's geography page (estado.sc.gov.br). All sentences are original.
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