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Learn Portuguese for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Guide
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What you will learn
- Foundations of Pronunciation
- Greetings and Introductions
- Nouns, Articles, and Gender
- Subject Pronouns and the Verb 'To Be'
- Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
- Numbers, Days, and Time
- Asking Questions and Negation
- Describing Things: Adjectives and Possessives
- Essential Vocabulary for Daily Life
- Expressing Wants, Needs, and the Future
- Navigating Everyday Situations
1. Foundations of Pronunciation
Why Portuguese Sounds So Different Than It Looks Imagine you are sitting at a café in Lisbon or São Paulo. You learned a few basic words from an app before your trip—words like pão (bread) and sim (yes). You felt confident. But when the locals speak, the words sound completely different than you expected. The vowels seem to shift and melt into one another, certain consonants sound like they are being whispered, and some words have a distinct hum vibrating through the nose. This is the Portuguese sound puzzle. Portuguese is a beautifully phonetic language, but its spelling does not always tell the whole story of how it should be spoken. A single letter can make multiple sounds depending on where it sits in a word, and the way words are chopped into beats (syllables) dictates which part gets the emphasis. Before you learn to string sentences together, you need to build the machinery in your mouth to produce these sounds. By mastering the alphabet, the five vowel personalities, the nasal hum, and the unique consonants, you will build a foundation that makes every future word you learn easier to say and understand. The Portuguese Alphabet: A Quick Tour The Portuguese alphabet uses the same 26 Latin letters as the English alphabet. For a long time, the letters K, W, and Y were not officially part of the Portuguese alphabet because they only appeared in foreign loanwords. However, under the 2009 Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement, they were officially incorporated. While the letters are the same, the names of the letters are different. More importantly, the sounds they make are distinct. A helpful concept to grasp before diving into specific letters is the idea of open and closed vowels. An open vowel is pronounced with your mouth wider open and your tongue lower. It sounds brighter and louder. Think of the "a" in the English word "cat." A closed vowel is pronounced with your mouth more relaxed and slightly closed. It sounds softer and deeper. Think of the "o" in the English word "cold." The Five Vowel Personalities In English, vowels are notoriously unpredictable. In Portuguese, vowels are much more consistent, but a single letter can still make two distinct sounds: an open sound or a closed sound. Let’s look at the five basic vowels: A, E, I, O, U. The Letter A Open A: Sounds like the "a" in "father." This happens in most stressed syllables. Example: palavra (word) — pronounced pah-LAH-vrah. Closed A: Sounds like the "u" in "cup" or the "e" in "above." This happens in unstressed syllables at the end of a word. Example: fala (he/she speaks) — pronounced FAH-luh. The Letter E Open E: Sounds like …
2. Greetings and Introductions
Greetings Based on the Time of Day Imagine you are walking into a small bakery in Lisbon on a Tuesday morning. The warm smell of baked bread fills the air, and the person behind the counter looks up, smiles, and says, "Bom dia!" In Portuguese, greetings are deeply tied to the time of day. Unlike English, where "Hello" or "Hi" can be used at any hour, Portuguese speakers switch their basic greeting depending on whether it is morning, afternoon, or evening. Here are the three essential time-based greetings: Bom dia: Good morning / Good day Boa tarde: Good afternoon Boa noite: Good evening / Good night Notice the words bom and boa. Both words translate to "good." As you will discover in later chapters, Portuguese words change their endings to match the things they describe. For now, just memorize them as fixed phrases: bom goes with dia, and boa goes with both tarde and noite. Pronunciation Notes Let’s apply the rules from the Foundations of Pronunciation chapter to these new phrases: Bom dia: The o in bom is a Closed O:. This means it sounds much like the "oo" in the English word "book." The m at the end of bom creates a nasal vowel. You do not fully close your lips to make a hard "m" sound; instead, you let the sound resonate through your nose. The i in dia is an open vowel, sounding like the "ee" in "see." Boa tarde: The o in boa is a Closed O:. The a sounds is an Open A:, similar to the "a" in "father." In tarde, the final e is a Closed E:. Because it is at the end of the word, it sounds like the "ee" in "see" (in Brazil) or a muted, slightly swallowed sound (in European Portuguese). Boa noite: The oi in noite is a diphthong (two vowel sounds combined). The o starts as an Open O: and glides into the i (open vowel). When to Use Which Greeting The transitions between these greetings are based loosely on meal times rather than exact clock hours: 1. Bom dia: Use from the time you wake up until around 12:00 PM (noon). 2. Boa tarde: Use from noon until the sun goes down (usually around 6:00 PM or 7:00 PM, depending on the season). 3. Boa noite: Use once it is dark outside. Note that Boa noite is used both as a greeting when you meet someone in the evening, and as a farewell when you are leaving for the night. Informal vs. Formal Greetings Time-based greetings are your safest bet in any situation. However, Portuguese also distinguishes between informal and formal contexts. If you are greeting a friend, …
3. Nouns, Articles, and Gender
The World of Nouns Imagine you are walking through a bustling market in Lisbon. You see an apple, a banana, and a strawberry. In English, you simply say "the apple," "a banana," and "the strawberry." The words "the" and "a" stay exactly the same regardless of what fruit you are pointing at. In Portuguese, however, the strawberry is masculine, the apple is feminine, and the banana is feminine. To say "the strawberry," you use o morango. To say "the apple," you switch to a maçã. The little word for "the" changes depending on the gender of the noun. A noun is a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea. In Portuguese, every single noun has a gender. It is either masculine or feminine. This doesn't mean that a table is biologically female or that a car is biologically male; gender is simply a grammatical category that Portuguese uses to organize words. Because every noun has a gender, the words that accompany nouns—like "the" or "a"—must change to match. This matching process is called agreement. If a noun is feminine, its article must be feminine. If a noun is masculine, its article must be masculine. Predicting Gender by Word Endings While English nouns don't have grammatical gender, Portuguese nouns follow a fairly reliable set of rules based on their final letters. You can usually guess a noun's gender just by looking at how it ends. The General Rule: O vs. A The most common way to determine a noun's gender is to look at its last vowel. Masculine nouns typically end in the letter -o. Feminine nouns typically end in the letter -a. Let's look at some examples. Remember from our work on pronunciation that the unaccented -o at the end of a word is pronounced as a Closed O: (sounding similar to the "u" in "put"), and the unaccented -a is an Open A: (sounding like the "a" in "father"). Masculine (-o): livro (book) carro (car) queijo (cheese) Feminine (-a): casa (house) mesa (table) janela (window) Exceptions and Other Endings Not all nouns end in -o or -a. Nouns ending in other letters are assigned a gender, too. Here is how to handle them: Ending in -ade, -gem, -ção: These are almost always feminine. cidade (city) viagem (trip/journey) nação (nation) Ending in -im, -om, -l, -z: These are generally masculine. jardim (garden) homem (man) — Note: This is a rare exception where a noun ending in -em is masculine. animal (animal) país (country) — Remember, the s s pronunciation applies here, sounding like the "s" in "sun." Ending in -e: Nouns ending in -e are a mixed bag. Some are masculine, and some are feminine. You will need …
4. Subject Pronouns and the Verb 'To Be'
The Two Ways to Exist: Why Portuguese Needs Two Verbs for "To Be" Imagine you are at a café in Lisbon. A friend introduces you to a Brazilian traveler named João, and you want to tell him how happy you are to meet him. You also want to tell him that you are a teacher, and finally, mention that you are a little cold because the air conditioning is on. In English, you would use the exact same verb for all three statements: "I am happy," "I am a teacher," and "I am cold." Portuguese, however, draws a strict line through these experiences. Because João is permanently a teacher, but only temporarily happy and temporarily cold, Portuguese forces you to choose between two entirely different verbs to express "to be." Making this choice correctly is one of the most important early steps in sounding natural in Portuguese. Before we can learn how to use these two verbs, however, we first need to know exactly who is being or doing something. Subject Pronouns: Who is Doing the Action? A subject pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun and indicates who or what is performing the action in a sentence. In English, our subject pronouns are I, you, he, she, it, we, and they. In Chapter 3, we learned that every Portuguese noun has a gender (masculine or feminine). Because Portuguese is highly gendered, its subject pronouns reflect this, often changing based on whether the speaker is male or female, or whether a group includes men or women. Here are the Portuguese subject pronouns, broken down by who they represent: Singular Pronouns (Referring to one person) Eu (I): Used regardless of your gender. Tu (You - informal): Used informally for "you" in some regions, particularly in Portugal and parts of Brazil. Você (You - formal/polite): Used as a polite "you" in Portugal and as the standard, everyday "you" across most of Brazil. Ele (He): Used for a male person. Ela (She): Used for a female person. Plural Pronouns (Referring to multiple people) Nós (We): Used regardless of the gender makeup of the group. Vocês (You all): The plural of você. Used to address a group of people. (Note: English doesn't have a distinct word for "you all," but vocês covers it). Eles (They - masculine/mixed): Used for a group of males, or a mixed group containing at least one male. Elas (They - feminine): Used only for groups made up entirely of females. The Pronoun Portuguese Skips: "It" You might have noticed a glaring omission: there is no Portuguese word for "it." In Portuguese, objects and animals are not gender-neutral "its." As we saw with nouns and articles …
5. Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
The Engine of Language: Verbs and Infinitives Imagine you are sitting in a café in Lisbon. You want to tell your new Portuguese friend that you speak Portuguese, that you drink coffee, and that you live in the city. So far, you have learned how to introduce yourself and say how you are feeling using the verb "to be" (ser and estar). But to truly communicate your daily life, you need action words. You need verbs. In Portuguese, verbs are the engine of your sentences. They tell us what is happening, who is doing it, and when. Before we learn how to make them run, we have to look at their default, unconjugated state. This is called the infinitive. The infinitive is the raw, base form of a verb. In English, infinitives usually start with the word "to" (to speak, to drink, to live). In Portuguese, the infinitive is just one single word ending in either -ar, -er, or -ir. These three endings are crucial because they sort Portuguese verbs into three distinct families, known as conjugation groups: First Conjugation: Verbs ending in -AR (e.g., falar - to speak) Second Conjugation: Verbs ending in -ER (e.g., beber - to drink) Third Conjugation: Verbs ending in -IR (e.g., viver - to live) To use a verb in a sentence, you can't just use the infinitive. You have to conjugate it. Conjugation is the process of changing the verb's ending to match the person doing the action (I, you, he/she, we, they) and the time frame (present, past, future). In this chapter, we will focus entirely on the present tense to describe actions happening right now or habitual daily actions. Furthermore, we will look exclusively at regular verbs. Regular verbs are predictable; they follow exact, unchanging mathematical patterns based on their ending. Once you learn the pattern for an -AR verb, you can apply it to almost every other -AR verb you encounter. Conjugating Regular -AR Verbs The -AR verbs are the most common type of verb in Portuguese. Let's use the verb falar (to speak) as our template. To conjugate a regular verb in the present tense, you follow a two-step process: 1. Drop the infinitive ending (-ar) to find the verb stem. For falar, the stem is fal-. 2. Add the present tense ending that matches the subject pronoun. Recall the subject pronouns introduced in Chapter 4: eu (I), tu (you - informal, mostly Portugal), ele/ela/você (he/she/you-formal), nós (we), eles/elas/vocês (they/you-plural). Here is the conjugation chart for a regular -AR verb: | Pronoun | Ending | Conjugation | Meaning | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Eu | -o | falo | I speak | | …
6. Numbers, Days, and Time
Counting from Zero to One Hundred Imagine you are at a bustling farmers' market in Lisbon. You want to buy a dozen pastéis de nata, the vendor tells you the price, and you need to make sure you have the right amount of euros in your wallet. To navigate moments like this, you need numbers. In Portuguese, counting from 0 to 100 follows a highly logical pattern. Once you memorize the first nineteen numbers, the rest of the decade falls into place with just a few new vocabulary words. The First Nineteen Let us start with the basics. Pay close attention to the pronunciation, especially the nasal vowels and the open and closed vowel sounds we explored in Foundations of Pronunciation. 0 – zero 1 – um (for masculine nouns) / uma (for feminine nouns) 2 – dois (masculine) / duas (feminine) 3 – três 4 – quatro 5 – cinco 6 – seis 7 – sete 8 – oito 9 – nove 10 – dez 11 – onze 12 – doze 13 – treze 14 – quatorze (or catorze) 15 – quinze 16 – dezesseis 17 – dezessete 18 – dezoito 19 – dezenove Notice the numbers 16 through 19. They are essentially a combination of dez (ten) and the numbers six through nine: dez-e-seis (ten and six). Also, remember from Nouns, Articles, and Gender that Portuguese nouns are either masculine or feminine. The numbers one and two have to match the gender of the noun they describe. Um carro (One car - masculine) Uma casa (One house - feminine) Dois gatos (Two cats - masculine) Duas mesas (Two tables - feminine) The Tens To count by tens, you need to learn a new set of words. Some of these sound similar to their English equivalents, which will help you remember them. 20 – vinte 30 – trinta 40 – quarenta 50 – cinquenta 60 – sessenta 70 – setenta 80 – oitenta 90 – noventa 100 – cem Combining Tens and Units To say a number like 23 or 45, you say the tens, followed by the letter e (meaning "and"), followed by the unit. 23 – vinte e três (twenty and three) 45 – quarenta e cinco (forty and five) 68 – sessenta e oito (sixty and eight) 92 – noventa e dois (ninety and two) The only slight exception is 100. While 100 on its own is cem, if you add any numbers after it, it changes to cento. 100 – cem 101 – cento e um 125 – cento e vinte e cinco Larger Number Patterns Once you hit 100, the pattern simply repeats itself. 200 – duzentos (masculine) / duzentas (feminine) 300 – trezentos …
7. Asking Questions and Negation
The Power of Information Imagine you are standing in a busy train station in Lisbon. You look at the departure board, but the information is confusing. You need to find out where your train is, when it leaves, and why the gate hasn't opened yet. To get these answers, you need two fundamental tools: the ability to ask questions and the ability to express what is not happening (negation). In Portuguese, asking questions and making sentences negative is refreshingly straightforward. Unlike English, which often requires rearranging the sentence or adding auxiliary verbs like "do" or "does" (e.g., "Where do you work?"), Portuguese keeps the word order exactly the same. You simply state a fact and change your tone of voice, or drop a question word at the beginning. Forming Yes/No Questions The simplest type of question is one that can be answered with a simple "yes" (sim) or "no" (não). In Portuguese, you have three primary ways to form these questions without changing the grammatical structure of the sentence at all. 1. Raising Intonation Just like in English, the easiest way to turn a statement into a question is to raise the pitch of your voice at the end of the sentence. - Statement: Você fala português. (You speak Portuguese.) - Question: Você fala português? (Do you speak Portuguese?) When speaking, your voice will naturally rise on the final word, português. When writing, you simply add a question mark. 2. Adding Question Tags If you want to seek confirmation or expect the listener to agree with you, you can add a "tag" to the end of a statement. In English, we say "You are going, aren't you?" or "She works here, right?" In Portuguese, the most common tag words are não é? (isn't it? / aren't they?), né? (a contraction of não é, common in spoken Brazilian Portuguese), and certo? (right?). - Statement: O banco abre às nove. (The bank opens at nine.) - Question: O banco abre às nove, não é? (The bank opens at nine, right?) - Question: O banco abre às nove, certo? (The bank opens at nine, right?) 3. Placing "NÃO" Before the Verb A very common and uniquely Portuguese way to ask a yes/no question is to place the word não at the beginning of the sentence, right before the verb. While não literally means "no," in this context, it functions like "Don't..." or "Aren't...". - Statement: Você trabalha amanhã. (You work tomorrow.) - Question: Não trabalha amanhã? (Aren't you working tomorrow? / Don't you work tomorrow?) - Question: Não vai chover hoje? (Isn't it going to rain today?) Note: You might wonder why we use "vai" (goes) to talk about rain. This is a …
8. Describing Things: Adjectives and Possessives
Painting the World with Words Imagine you are standing in a busy market in Lisbon. A vendor is selling beautiful ceramic tiles, leather bags, and handmade baskets. You want to buy a specific bag, but there are twenty bags on the table. If you only know the word for bag (bolsa), you can point and say: "A bolsa." But what if you want the small, red bag? Or the old, leather bag? To navigate the world, order the right food, or find the right object, you need to be able to describe it. This is where adjectives come in. An adjective is a word that describes or modifies a noun—giving it characteristics like size, color, age, or shape. Furthermore, if you see a jacket on a chair, you might need to clarify who it belongs to. Is it your jacket? Her jacket? To do this, we use possessive pronouns, which indicate ownership or relationships. In this chapter, we will build directly on the foundation you built in "Nouns, Articles, and Gender." You will learn how to make adjectives agree with the nouns they describe, how to use common descriptive words, and how to tell the world that something is yours. The Rule of Agreement: Matching Adjectives to Nouns In English, adjectives are simple. The car is red. The houses are red. The word "red" never changes. In Portuguese, however, adjectives are like chameleons: they change their appearance to match the noun they are describing. Because every Portuguese noun has a gender (masculine or feminine) and a number (singular or plural), the adjective must match. This is called agreement. To make an adjective agree with a noun, you look at the noun's ending: If the noun is masculine singular, the adjective usually ends in -o. If the noun is feminine singular, the adjective usually ends in -a. If the noun is plural, the adjective gets an -s. Let’s look at the adjective pequeno (small) modifying the word carro (car) and casa (house): O carro pequeno (The small car) — Carro is masculine singular, so pequeno ends in -o. A casa pequena (The small house) — Casa is feminine singular, so pequeno changes to pequena. Os carros pequenos (The small cars) — Carros is masculine plural, so pequeno gets an -s. As casas pequenas (The small houses) — Casas is feminine plural, so pequeno becomes pequenas. Adjectives Ending in Vowels vs. Consonants Most basic adjectives end in vowels (-o or -e). For adjectives ending in -e (like grande - big, or verde - green), the ending is the same for both masculine and feminine singular. You only add an -s for the plural: O livro grande (The big book - masculine) A …
9. Essential Vocabulary for Daily Life
Meeting the Family Imagine you are at a Sunday gathering in Brazil. The table is full of food, music is playing, and a friend introduces you to their relatives. To participate in the conversation, you need the vocabulary for the people around you. In Portuguese, family member nouns follow the gender rules we established in Nouns, Articles, and Gender. For many family members, you can change the gender of the person simply by switching the final vowel from -o (masculine) to -a (feminine). Immediate Family Let us start with the closest relatives. Notice how the definite articles o (the, masculine) and a (the, feminine) pair with the nouns. o pai (the father) a mãe (the mother) o filho (the son) a filha (the daughter) o irmão (the brother) a irmã (the sister) Pay close attention to irmão and irmã. As we saw in Foundations of Pronunciation, the tilde (~) indicates a nasal vowel. When you change the masculine irmão to the feminine irmã, the nasalization disappears, and you pronounce a clean, open "ã" sound. Extended Family When looking beyond the immediate household, the vocabulary expands. o avô (the grandfather) a avó (the grandmother) o neto (the grandson) a neta (the granddaughter) o tio (the uncle) a tia (the aunt) o primo (the male cousin) a prima (the female cousin) Pronunciation Tip: The words avô (grandfather) and avó (grandmother) differ only by their accent marks, but they sound completely different. Avô uses a circumflex (ô), indicating a closed vowel sound (similar to the "o" in "snow"). Avó uses an acute accent (ó), indicating an open vowel sound (similar to the "o" in "hot"). The In-Laws In English, we attach "-in-law" to a family member to denote marriage. In Portuguese, these are entirely different words, usually characterized by the suffix -do or -da. o sogro / a sogra (father-in-law / mother-in-law) o genro (son-in-law) a nora (daughter-in-law) o cunhado / a cunhada (brother-in-law / sister-in-law) Food and Drink Whether you are walking through a bustling outdoor market or sitting down at a restaurant, knowing how to identify basic food and drink items is essential. At the Market When shopping for groceries, you will need to identify basic staples. Remember that because these are nouns, they have grammatical gender, which will affect the adjectives you use to describe them (as covered in Describing Things: Adjectives and Possessives). Fruits (as frutas) a maçã (the apple) a banana (the banana) a laranja (the orange) o limão (the lemon/lime) Vegetables (os legumes) o tomate (the tomato) a batata (the potato) a cebola (the onion) a alface (the lettuce) Meats and Proteins (as carnes e proteínas) a carne (the meat) o frango (the chicken) o peixe (the …
10. Expressing Wants, Needs, and the Future
Expressing Desires with the Verb 'querer' Imagine you walk into a busy Lisbon café. The pastéis de nata are stacked high behind the glass counter, and the smell of strong coffee fills the air. The server approaches, pen in hand, waiting for your order. To get what you want, you need to master the Portuguese equivalent of "I want" and "I would like." In Portuguese, the verb for "to want" is querer. In Regular Verbs in the Present Tense, we learned that regular verbs follow predictable patterns based on their endings (-ar, -er, -ir). However, querer is an irregular verb. This means its stem changes slightly depending on who is doing the wanting. While the irregularities might seem tricky at first, "querer" is one of the most common verbs in the Portuguese language, so memorizing it will immediately pay off. Here is the present tense conjugation of querer: Eu quero (I want) Tu queres (You want - informal, singular) Ele / Ela / Você quer (He / She / You want - formal, singular) Nós queremos (We want) Eles / Elas / Vocês querem (They / You want - plural) Politeness and 'querer' While "eu quero" translates directly to "I want," using it on its own can sometimes sound a bit blunt or childish in Portuguese. Just as in English, where "I would like" is softer than "I want," Portuguese speakers use a few tricks to sound polite. If you are ordering at a restaurant or asking a shopkeeper for an item, you can use the conditional tense of querer: eu quereria (I would like). However, since the conditional tense is a more advanced concept, beginners often rely on a simpler, perfectly polite alternative: combining querer with the phrase por favor (please). Eu quero um café, por favor. (I want a coffee, please.) Você quer um copo de água? (Do you want a glass of water?) Notice that in the second example, the question is formed simply by raising the pitch of your voice at the end of the sentence, a technique we covered in Asking Questions and Negation. Expressing Necessity with 'precisar' Sometimes, wanting something isn't enough; you actually need it. If you are lost in Porto and need a map, or if you are sick and need a doctor, you will use the verb precisar, which means "to need." Unlike querer, precisar is highly regular. It belongs to the -ar verb family, meaning it follows the exact same conjugation pattern we learned in Regular Verbs in the Present Tense. Here is the present tense conjugation of precisar: Eu preciso (I need) Tu precisas (You need - informal, singular) Ele / Ela / Você precisa (He / She / …
11. Navigating Everyday Situations
Surviving the Café: Ordering Food and Drinks You have just spent the morning walking through the cobblestone streets of Lisbon or the sunny avenues of São Paulo. The aroma of freshly baked pastries and strong coffee fills the air. You spot a charming café with outdoor seating, but the menu is entirely in Portuguese, and the waiter speaks rapidly. This is the moment your language skills shift from theory to reality. Ordering food and drinks is one of the most satisfying milestones for a beginner, and you already have the grammatical tools to do it. In Expressing Wants, Needs, and the Future, you learned how to use the verb querer (to want) and ir (to go). In Numbers, Days, and Time, you learned how to count. Now, it is just a matter of putting them together with some practical vocabulary. Getting the Waiter’s Attention In English, we often say "excuse me" to get a waiter's attention. In Portuguese, the most common and polite way to flag down a server is to simply say: Com licença - Excuse me / With permission (used to get attention or pass by someone) Por favor - Please You might also hear the waiter approach your table and ask: Pois não? - Literally "Well, no?", but functionally it means "How can I help you?" or "Yes, please?" Ordering Your Meal You can order in a few different ways. The simplest method is to state what you want using the present tense of querer (to want), which you studied in Module 10. Eu quero... - I want... Eu gostaria de... - I would like... (A slightly more formal, polite alternative) Here are some common items you might order: Beverages (Bebidas) Um café - An espresso (If you want what Americans call a "coffee," ask for um café americano or um café com leite - coffee with milk) Uma água - A water (com gás for sparkling, sem gás for still) Um sumo - A juice (In Brazil) / Um sumo or Uma sumo - A juice (In Portugal, often used for fruit juices) Uma cerveja - A beer Food (Comida) Um pão - A bread / A roll Uma tosta - A toasted sandwich O pequeno-almoço - Breakfast (Portugal) / O café da manhã - Breakfast (Brazil) O almoço - Lunch O jantar - Dinner A Real-World Scenario Let’s look at a short interaction at a café in Lisbon. Waiter: Bom dia! Pois não? (Good morning! How can I help you?) You: Bom dia. Eu quero um café e uma tosta, por favor. (Good morning. I want a coffee and a toasted sandwich, please.) Waiter: Sim, senhor. Para beber? (Yes, sir. To drink?) You: Sim, o …
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