The Bread & Butter of Portuguese Prepositions

Suitable for both beginner and intermediate levels, The Big 5 helps you master the most relevant prepositions in Portuguese.

Prepositions have an infamous reputation among language learners and it’s easy to understand why: they tend to be ambivalent, prone to contextual subtleties, and their usage is to some degree arbitrary.

Put differently, it usually takes a lot of exposure to the Portuguese language until its prepositional usage becomes intuitive for language learners. It is therefore not unusual to see intermediate-level students still struggling with it, let alone beginners.

By teaching you the guiding principles for the most relevant prepositions in Portuguese, this course helps you develop your intuition and idiomatic feel for them.

Course outline

Intro

  • Overview

THE BIG 5

  • Em
  • De
  • A
  • Por
  • Para

ACROSS THE BIG 5

  • Place
  • Time
  • Movement

COMPLEMENTARY READ

  • The BIG 5 – Article Version

PRACTICE

  • Exercises

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