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Portuguese Modal Verbs
Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs that allow us to express things like necessity, possibility, certainty, doubt, and ability. We use them all the time. You’d agree that the sentences you must study more and you should study more have distinct…
Portuguese Word Stress and Accent Marks
If you care about Portuguese pronunciation and want to get good at it, you have to come to grips with its word stress patterns. That’s it. Here’s Portuguese word stress in a nutshell: Portuguese words without accent marks are stressed…
Portuguese Verb Tenses and Moods Explained: A Usage Rundown Anchored to English
Portuguese verbs are infamously known to be highly inflected, which of course is a hard-to-chew bit for anyone learning the language (especially if you are not acquainted with any Romance language from before). Now, it is one thing to keep…
Portuguese Grammar for Beginners
Are you at the start of your Portuguese language learning journey? If that’s the case, well, spot on! This article was written for beginners just like you. In what follows, I will give an overview of Portuguese grammar’s basic features…
European vs. Brazilian Portuguese – How Different Are They Really?
You are probably aware that there are two well-established standards of Portuguese – the European and the Brazilian standards. Most language learners, though, don’t know much about their differences and, most of all, how big they are. So, how different…
Portuguese Verbs Ser vs. Estar: How and When to Use Either
In Portuguese, there are two to be verbs: ser and estar. Not fully understanding their differences, language learners will often hesitate between using one or the other. See, while both ser and estar are equivalent to the English verb to…
Portuguese compared to Spanish: How Similar Are They Actually?
Portuguese and Spanish are Romance languages that share a common root: they both stem from Vulgar Latin. But how similar are they actually? Portuguese and Spanish are different enough to be considered separate languages, but they have nonetheless a similar…
Portuguese Grammar Compared to English
As you start your Portuguese learning journey, you might wonder about how different Portuguese grammar is from its English counterpart. Portuguese and English grammars are fairly relatable since both languages belong to the Indo-European family. As such, they share many…