A daughter and her mother discuss their evening plans.

Tiago’s mother goes away for a few days and calls her son to make sure he’s taking care of things at home. Note: For demonstration purposes, some lines of this dialogue sound too formal/stiff for this context. We wrote them this way to help you explore how to merge clitic pronouns within a simplified example.

Sofia and André talk about everything they did yesterday with their friends. Notice how different forms of the past tense are used throughout the dialogue.

Lucas tries to understand why Helena is so in love with her new boyfriend. Take note of how clitic pronouns are used throughout the dialogue in different types of statements and questions, including those with reflexive verbs and indirect/direct objects.

A woman goes shopping for new eyeglasses. Follow along to learn some new vocabulary you could use in this situation.

Matilde picks out some bed linens and towels with some help from the shopkeeper.

This Learning Note was designed to serve as a very condensed overview of basic Portuguese grammar. We hope this will help give you a “big picture” view of the language before you dive into the details. You’ll notice there are many links throughout, in case you want to explore a particular topic, or bookmark it […]

It was love at first sight for these two perfect strangers.

Let’s talk about an important topic: Portuguese auxiliary verbs! In a verb phrase (locução verbal), an auxiliary verb comes before the main verb. Essentially, its job is to “help” the main verb. Most Common Portuguese Auxiliary Verbs Here are a few of the most common , which you will probably recognize: Here are just a […]

A woman visits a clothing shop to exchange a blouse she received as a gift.

Practice that tricky “lh” sound as Carlos tells Sara about his daily troubles. Try listening line by line and repeating the words containing ‘lh’ out loud.

Sílvia picks up her bicycle from the repair shop.