Questions

Like any curious child, Tiago is constantly asking his parents questions, but some are easier to answer than others… (Previously launched as audio-only, now fully-animated by our talented friend, Wayne!)

Leonor asks Gustavo questions about his busy day.

Two parents meet and realize their children go to the same school. Hear some basic conversation skills in action: introductions, greetings, simple comments, and questions.

Renato asks for suggestions on where he and his family should eat lunch.

We’ll cover prepositions in more detail in later units, but for now, let’s go over a few prepositional phrases that come up frequently within Portuguese questions. You’ll notice that the preposition always comes right before the question word: Para Por

You may have come across é que in a variety of Portuguese questions and wondered why these extra words are added. Technically, it’s optional — the core meaning stays the same with or without it. But in practice, including é que in open-ended European Portuguese questions is so common that you should typically default to […]

Yes/No Questions in Portuguese There are a number of different ways to form questions in Portuguese. We’ll start with those for which the answers are either affirmative or negative. These are the easiest Portuguese questions to ask because very few changes have to be made to turn a statement into a question. 1. Add a […]

In this lesson, we’ll take a look at quantificadores interrogativos (interrogative quantifiers), which are simply the question words you’ll use to ask about quantities. These include the following words, which are modified to match the gender and number of the items in question: Word order tip: Unlike English, Portuguese quantifiers do not always come at […]

In this lesson, we’ll learn about Interrogative determiners are words we use to formulate questions or exclamations, and they are followed by nouns. There are only two of them, but they are quite important! Que Que is equivalent to “what”. Example: There is no plural form of que. Qual / Quais Qual is the singular […]

Like any curious child, Tiago is constantly asking his parents questions, but some are easier to answer than others…