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Basic Portuguese Verbs
Volume I

Welcome to Basic Portuguese Verbs. Keep learning Portuguese as the Brazilians do - not as the grammar books state! ;-)

What You Are Going to Find on the eBook

On this eBook - besides having 37 verbs at hand - you will also find practical exercises like these:

Match the Columns:

  Portuguese    English 
  1. abrir   a. _____ to say
  2. aprender   b. _____ to get
  3. beber   c. _____ to eat
  4. brincar   d. _____ to drink
  5. comer   e. _____ to open
  6. comprar   f. _____ to learn
  7. conhecer   g. _____ to play
  8. conseguir   h. _____ to buy
  9. conversar   i. _____ to know
  10. dizer   j. _____ to talk


Reading Exercise:

Read the text below, and fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb. This Brazilian writer is talking about the importance of paying attention at the small wonders that surround us…

"Uma criança _______________ (vê/vendo) o que o adulto não _______________ vê/vendo.

_______________ (Tem/Tenho) olhos atentos e limpos para o espetáculo do mundo. O poeta _______________ é/ser capaz de ver pela primeira vez o que, de fato, ninguém _______________ vê/ver.

Há pai que nunca _______________ viu/veria o próprio filho. Marido que nunca _______________ viu/vendo a própria mulher, isso existe às pampas.

Nossos olhos se _______________ gastam/gastar no dia-a-dia, opacos. É por aí que se instala no coração o monstro da indiferença."
* Vista Cansada, by Otto Lara Resende

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