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Portuguese Prepositions ‘Para’ vs. ‘A’: Know When to Use Either
Language learners often struggle to discern between the prepositions a and para, especially when both are used as prepositions of movement. That’s hardly surprising. When in English we use to, we can either use a or para to nuance different…
Portuguese Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
It is true that Portuguese verbs are more cumbersome to learn than, say, English. Being a Romance language, Portuguese is not short of verb forms to keep track of. Fortunately, there are plenty of regular verbs as well, that is,…
Portuguese Conjunctions – All You Need to Know
Without conjunctions, we would sound rather clumsy and inarticulate: I like apples. I like pears. I don’t like bananas. No one speaks like that. In avoiding the choppiness of several short sentences, conjunctions (aka linking words) allow us to express…
Portuguese Demonstrative Pronouns and Determiners
Demonstratives are those words that help with pointing out a person or object as well as their location in relation to both speaker and hearer. Portuguese demonstratives work along the same lines as the English, that is, they indicate whether…
Personal Infinitive in Portuguese: What Is It and When to Use It
The so-called personal infinitive is unique to Portuguese, and we use it a lot. Because there is no parallel in other languages, it is no wonder that learners of Portuguese often struggle to wrap their heads around it. For starters,…
Portuguese Preposition ‘De’
The Portuguese preposition de is primarily a preposition of origin and the Portuguese equivalent of from. Additionally, we use de in genitive constructions, as a noun modifier, and to express time, among others. Here’s an example of de used as…
Portuguese Present Subjunctive: Conjugation and Usage
The use of the subjunctive in Portuguese is way more frequent than in English. That alone can be a stumbling block for many language learners as they may lack the feel for when to use it. In general, the present subjunctive…
The Imperative in Portuguese
Like other Romance languages, Portuguese has an abundance of verb forms. Adding to the pile is the imperative mood. In Portuguese, just like in English, we use the imperative to give instructions and commands, to urge someone to do something…
Past Participle in Portuguese: Conjugation and Usage
In Portuguese, we use the past participle to form perfect tenses as well as the passive voice. In addition, we use past participles as adjectives. In what follows, I will walk you through the Portuguese past participle’s usage in greater detail…