Portuguese Nouns

Welcome to the third Portuguese lesson about nouns. This time we will first learn about fruits and vegetables, followed by grammar rules, then food items, finally a conversation in Portuguese to help you practice your daily phrases.

potatoes batatas

tomatoes tomates

onions cebolas

carrots cenouras

fruits frutas

apples maçãs

bananas bananas

oranges laranjas

Nouns Grammar Rules

In general nouns refer to a person, an object, or abstract ideas. For example: a fast runner the noun is [runner] because it refers to a person. The examples below use nouns in different ways and places to demonstrate how they behave in a sentence.

Grammar + Rules - Portuguese
do you have milk? [verb + noun] tem leite?tens leite?
I have milk and coffee [preposition + noun] eu tenho leite e café
he has three apples [number + plural noun] ele tem três maçãs
she only has one apple [number + singular noun] ela só tem uma maçã
we live in a small house [adjective + noun] nós moramos numa pequena casa
I like our breakfast [pronoun + noun] eu gosto do nosso pequeno almoço

The following are nouns of food items that you might be interested in learning and memorizing.

bread pão

milk leite

butter manteiga

cheese queijo

coffee café

sandwich sanduíche

meat carne

chicken frango

fish peixe

breakfast pequeno almoço

lunch almoço

dinner jantar

Conversation in Portuguese

Now we finally reach the fun part, the practice of the daily conversations. These phrases are used to get to know new people, and break the ice.

English - Portuguese
Do you speak (English/ Portuguese)? fala (inglês / português)?falas (inglês / português)?
Just a little só um pouco
I like Portuguese eu gosto de português
Can I practice with you? posso praticar com você?/posso praticar contigo?
How old are you? quantos anos você tem?quantos anos tens?
I'm thirty three years old eu tenho 33 anos
It was nice talking to you foi bom falar consigo!foi bom falar contigo!

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