Onde in Portuguese: ONDE, AONDE, DE ONDE, PARA ONDE
Where’s it at? Nowhere to go. Where you from? Where to? ONDE In Portuguese can have these same superpowers. The key to discovering them is in examining real examples in real context.
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Portuguese Contractions
The 3 most common Portuguese contractions are: (1) from em: no, na (2) from de: do, da (3) from a: ao, à. Once you know these 3, all the others will make sense! The hardest part is just getting used to saying for example, “no” when you do not mean “não” – but rather: em + o (in the).
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Lição 12: ensino
Lição 6: ensino
Lição 14: ensino
Lição 3: ensino
And now, você fala um pouco — um pouco de Português! Você entende? When you don’t entende (understand), you say: Eu não entendo. Get used to saying this 😉 We’re ignoring the nós (we), you all & they (vocês) conjugations because you don’t need them now.
Lição 2: ensino
The táxi driver says seja bem vindo ao Brasil. The grammar in this sentence is actually very complicated so let’s skip the explanation. You just need to learn that the ao is a+o. The “o” is THE and it’s just for masculine objects. The feminine version is “a” and so when you combine a +…
Upon: ao
You’re already using “ao” to say at the or, to the, but it has another entirely different meaning when used together with a verb in the infinitive. When I first started hearing people say this I didn’t even notice t since it’s just an “ow” before a verb. I thought it was some weird slang….
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3: Aniversário ➜ dialog
THEO Bom dia. CLAIRE Eu ainda estou dormindo. THEO Feliz aniversário de casamento. If someone says, “é meu aniversário”, it’s their birthday. If someone says, “é nosso aniversário”, it’s their wedding anniversary. CLAIRE E disseram que não ia durar. DURAR = to last. DURO(A) = tough, grueling. How would you say, “Our marriage has lasted…
8: Chega! ➜ dialog
FELIPE O que você achou? CLAUDIA Oi? * Brazilians use “oi” to say “what”. FELIPE Do filme. O que você achou? JOSH Você viu essa ator no outro filme? Here are two examples of verbs in the “simple past” – an ~ar and an ~er verb : ACHAR & VER CLAUDIA Oi? FELIPE Está gostando?…
5: Locadora ➜ dialog
CLAUDIA Aqui tem algum filme do Alfred Hitchcock? Did you hear her say algum filme? She swallowed the algum. HUGO Oi? Não. Aqui são filmes românticos. Os filmes de suspense, eu não sei onde estão. I’m so proud of this line because it contains SER and ESTAR side-by-side — in the plural (they) -! Amazing….
THIS & THAT – Demonstrative Pronouns
Portuguese gets complicated as soon as you start trying to say this and that. To this day I get these wrong. That’s because in Portuguese there are 3 different cases to consider. The subject can be male, female, or unknown. In time this starts to come naturally. Actually, what happens is you start to anticipate…
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7: Vem sempre aqui? ➜ dialog
BERNARDO Nossa! Que aula. CELINA Cansativa, não é? BERNARDO Muito. Mas, gostei. CELINA Também. BERNARDO Você vem sempre aqui? CELINA Não. É minha primeira vez aqui. She could have been more formal and said, É a minha primeira vez aqui. But the article “a” isn’t really necessary. You’ll see the “o” & “a” mainly in…
6: Ficar de Olho ➜ dialog
Ficar de olho means to keep an eye on. Literally, keep of the eye. MARK Is this cool? JAMES Looks ok to me. I don’t see anyone suspicious. MARK I’m gonna ask that girl to watch our stuff. JAMES Good luck with that. MARK Tudo bem! I’ve been studying. MARK Olá… Com licença. MARK Eu…