Prepositions

A day at the park turns from picnic to panic in this simple A1 story.

Maria asks for help finding various items around the supermarket.

Think back to the early days of learning Portuguese… When you started talking about simple likes and dislikes, you probably paused at phrases like and wondered what that was doing there. This was your first encounter with regência (regency), a grammatical principle which relates to how words depend on others to complete their meaning. In […]

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Helena gives Lúcia a ride home.

A man talks about his newly remodeled living room, using prepositions of place and vocabulary related to furniture and household items.

Sofia can’t find her book and enlists Lucas to help her with the search. This story uses simple vocabulary and common verbs in the present tense.

Afonso talks about himself and his friend Sónia in this simple introduction.

As a storm rages in Portugal, Joca is convinced he can brave the elements. Keep an eye and ear out for many different uses of the preposition até.

One challenge of learning Portuguese, or any language, is that you can’t simply translate literally. Each language has its own conventions for how to word different concepts. This is known as idiomatic language. In this Learning Note, we’re focusing mostly on how to translate English “phrasal verbs” into Portuguese. (For other types of idioms, check […]

Remember definite articles? They’re the little words that mean the in Portuguese. They correspond to the gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) of the item in reference, so there are 4 possibilities: o, a, os, and as. However, it’s not always as simple as just replacing the with o, a, os, or as. […]

When you start learning about Portuguese prepositions, you’ll quickly realize that the translation is very dependent on context. This makes it tricky for non-native speakers to determine which preposition to use. In this Learning Note, we’ll review some commonly confused prepositions to help clarify these distinctions. Place: When to Use “A” vs “Em” The preposition […]