22 flashcard lists in Portuguese, level A1, written for English speakers.
22 lists · 2,082 cards
The grammar guide: Portuguese grammar
Level A1 — beginner: can understand and use very simple everyday expressions.
A few words at this level: a imagem, o copo, dois, olá.
A1 109 cards
School and the classroom, free time, music and sport, animals, plants and the weather, and the world around you: o professor, o livro, o futebol, o cão, a chuva.
A1 87 cards
Colours, size, feelings, quality, price and degree, with a few useful phrases: azul, grande, cansado, barato, muito.
A1 60 cards
Places in town, shops and money, clothes, transport and the verbs for buying and travelling: a loja, a câmara, o dinheiro, o vestido, o comboio.
A1 97 cards
The home and its rooms, the daily routine, food and drink, the meals of the day and eating out: a cozinha, levantar-se, o pão, o pequeno-almoço, o restaurante.
A1 47 cards
Relatives, people, feelings and the parts of the body, with a few verbs about life and age: o pai, a mãe, a criança, a cabeça, nascer.
A1 83 cards
Numbers and counting words, telling the time, the parts of the day, the days of the week, the months and dates: vinte, o par, Que horas são?, a segunda-feira, o Natal.
A1 24 cards
Countries and continents, their nationalities and languages: a França (France), o Japão (Japan), inglês (English), europeu (European).
A1 58 cards
The little words that stand for people and things, point to them or say how many: eu, meu, este, cada, nenhum. They often have several translations, so the list is practised as flashcards and you judge your own answer.
Greetings and goodbyes (olá, bom dia, adeus), polite phrases, personal details such as name, age and address, and words for jobs, phones, messages and writing.
A1 126 cards
The commonest verbs, yes and no, question words and the little words that join and place things, with a few everyday nouns: ser, ter, quando, com, a coisa.
A1 38 cards
The five present forms of the A1 verbs, to recite aloud and check yourself: ser, estar and ter, the regular verbs in -ar, -er and -ir (falo, como, abro), ir, vir, fazer and the other irregular verbs, the verbs whose eu form changes (conheço, peço, durmo), querer, poder and chamar-se.
A1 12 cards
The European Portuguese sounds and spellings an English speaker reads differently: ão, ã, the nasal m, lh and nh, ch and x, the final s, s and ss, r and rr, j, the unstressed e and o, and the silent h. Each sound is heard in a word, then recognised by ear and on the page. Nothing is typed.
A1 111 cards
The agreement of the adjective in gender and number (alto, alta, altos, altas / grande, grandes, azul, azuis), its place after the noun (um carro preto), muito unchanged before an adjective, then ser for who someone is, estar for how someone is now or where, and estar com fome, ando cansado.
Demonstratives for what is near the speaker, near the person spoken to or far from both (este livro, essa casa, aquelas árvores, isto, isso, aquilo), possessives preceded by the article (o meu pai, a tua morada, o seu bilhete), é meu after ser, and do, da before a name: o livro do Carlos.
Talking about the day in the present: habits with sempre, às vezes and nunca, já and ainda não, levanto-me and deito-me, costumo jantar, estou a estudar for what is going on now, vou trabalhar and amanhã janto for plans, gosto de café, dói-me a cabeça and apetece-me um café.
The first exchanges in European Portuguese: ser in the present (eu sou, tu és, ele é, nós somos, eles são), a name with chamo-me and Como te chamas?, polite address with o senhor and a senhora (Como se chama?), the subject pronoun left out, and where someone is from (sou de Lisboa, De onde és?).
A1 86 cards
Começar a and acabar de with the infinitive (acabo de jantar), para for a purpose (vou ao café para ler), the infinitive as subject (falar inglês é fácil), e, ou and mas with a plural verb after two names, porque and então, quando with the present, and acho que followed by a sentence.
A1 124 cards
The gender of nouns (primo, prima, professora), the articles um, uma, o, a and o Pedro, a Ana, the plural in -s, -es and -is (casas, países, hotéis), homem and mulher, the numbers and ordinals that agree (duas, duzentas, primeira) and outro, outra.
A1 210 cards
Há for what exists, em and a with the article (no hotel, na Alemanha, ao cinema, à praia), words of place (em cima de, ao lado de, aqui, aí, ali), transport (de comboio, a pé), the clock (são duas e meia, às oito), days and seasons, the weather (está sol, chove), para and por, and moro aqui há dois anos.
Negation with não before the verb, yes-or-no questions answered by repeating the verb (Falas inglês? — Falo.), the question words quem, o que, onde, como, quando, qual and quanto, porque and porquê, questions with é que (Onde é que moras?) and the set questions Como se diz? and Como se escreve?
A1 211 cards
The European Portuguese present indicative: ter (tenho, tens, têm) and its use for age, hunger and cold, the regular verbs in -ar, -er and -ir (falo, como, abro), then estar, ir, fazer, vir, ver, ler, dizer, trazer, dar, saber and pôr, the eu forms saio, peço, ouço, prefiro and durmo, subir and passear.
Querer, poder, saber, conseguir and ter de followed by an infinitive (quero jantar, sei nadar, tenho de trabalhar), queria and podia for a polite request, saber or conhecer, then the common imperatives for a friend and for “você” (entra / entre, diz / diga, senta-te / sente-se).