34 flashcard lists in Portuguese, level A2, written for English speakers.
34 lists · 2,983 cards
The grammar guide: Portuguese grammar
Level A2 — elementary: can communicate in simple routine situations.
A few words at this level: morto, rir, mexer, a informação.
A2 64 cards
The body and health, from o pescoço and as costas to a dor de cabeça and a constipação, plus hair, accidents and emergencies, danger, crime and the police (a esquadra).
A2 104 cards
Words for describing things and people: qualities, colours and materials, how much and how fast, and comparing, from esperto, vazio and cor-de-rosa to mais de and pior.
A2 66 cards
Linking words and varied everyday words, such as quase, no entanto, a sorte, o rei and rezar.
A2 116 cards
School and work: school subjects, supplies and exams, grammar terms, and jobs, offices and meetings. Words such as o exame, a régua, o horário, o chefe and a reunião.
A2 85 cards
Everyday Portuguese phrases for conversation: wishes and thanks (Parabéns!, Boa sorte!, De nada.), reactions (Uau!, Que pena), and linking words such as na verdade, a propósito and talvez.
A2 72 cards
Family members, friends and how people feel: a tia, o primo, o namorado, preocupado and chorar, along with words for getting married, growing up and describing someone's character.
A2 64 cards
Places in town and where things are: buildings such as a igreja and o estádio, finding your way (sempre em frente, à esquerda) and positions such as ao lado de.
A2 116 cards
Sport, games, music, theatre and going out: o xadrez, a natação, o concerto, o palco and a discoteca, with the people who play, sing and perform.
A2 86 cards
Shops, money and clothes: where to shop (a livraria, o talho), buying, paying and saving (o talão, poupar), and what people wear, such as a camisola.
A2 105 cards
Furniture, rooms and everyday things at home, from the sofa and the cupboard to the washing machine, plus household chores, the bathroom and renting a place.
A2 131 cards
Food, drink and cooking in Portuguese: dishes and courses (a sobremesa, a ementa), tableware (o garfo, a tigela), fruit, drinks and cooking verbs such as ferver and assar.
A2 129 cards
Large numbers and ordinals, measures, and the words that place things in time, from holidays to how often: duzentos, décimo, o quilómetro, a Páscoa, hoje em dia.
A2 118 cards
Portuguese words for weather, landscape, animals, compass points and countries with their nationalities, such as a tempestade, a floresta, o elefante, o norte and a Suécia.
A2 42 cards
Portuguese pronouns, quantity words, conjunctions and prepositions. These little words often have several translations: the list is practised as flashcards, and you judge your own answer.
A2 83 cards
Phones, computers, the internet, post and media: a aplicação, o teclado, o ecrã, o selo, as notícias, ligar.
A2 82 cards
Everyday Portuguese verbs and verb phrases: coming and going (voltar, entrar), bringing and keeping (trazer, guardar), trying and deciding (tentar, decidir), and what you must or may do (dever, poder).
A2 82 cards
Words for getting around and going on holiday: o passaporte, a mala, o voo, a autoestrada and o semáforo, with planes, trains, hotels and the road.
A2 15 cards
The imperative of the A2 verbs for tu, você and vocês, to recite aloud and check yourself: the regular verbs (fala, fale, falem; come, coma, comam), the forms built on the eu form (faça, diga, venha, ponha, traga), the irregular ones (seja, esteja, vá, dê) and the verbs said with -te and -se (senta-te, sente-se).
A2 12 cards
The five forms of the pretérito imperfeito, to recite aloud and check yourself: the regular verbs in -ar (falava), in -er and -ir (comia, abria), and the four irregular verbs ser, ter, vir and pôr (era, tinha, vinha, punha).
The five forms of the pretérito perfeito simples of the A2 verbs, to recite aloud and check yourself: the regular verbs in -ar, -er and -ir (falei, comi, abri), the eu forms fiquei, cheguei, comecei, ser and ir (fui), ter and estar (tive, estive), fazer, dizer, trazer, vir, ver, dar, poder, pôr, querer, saber, sair and cair.
A2 44 cards
Verbs built on fazer and ter and a few more irregular verbs first met at A2, in the present, the perfeito and the imperfeito: refaço, refiz, refez, mantenho-me, mantém-se, mantinha-se, rio, riu, ria, constrói, construíram, descubro. Gaps, forms, corrections and sentences to put in order.
Plurals in -ões, -ães and -ãos (leões, pães, irmãos), masculine nouns in -a (o dia, o problema), o lápis and os óculos, adjectives such as feliz and jovem, mais … do que, tão … como, o mais … de, melhor and pior, adverbs in -mente (rapidamente) and prefixes like in- and des-.
The past participle as an adjective after a noun, with its agreement: regular falado, comido, partido, irregular feito, dito, visto, posto, escrito, aberto, vindo, pago, then estar + participle for a resulting state (a porta está fechada, as lojas estão abertas).
Linking clauses in Portuguese: por isso, logo and pois for a result or a reason, como at the start for a cause, desde que, se with the present, que after diz, penso and sei and as a relative word (o livro que li), precisar de and andar a with an infinitive, deve estar, and eu e a Ana moramos.
A2 137 cards
Preposition and article joined in one word (dos, nas, aos, num, pelo, deste, naquele), este livro and esta noite with no article, phrases of place (em frente de, ao fundo da rua), dates and frequency (a 12 de outubro, três vezes ao dia), a lápis, por or para, and verbs with their preposition (gostar de, pensar em).
A2 111 cards
Object and reflexive pronouns in Portuguese: levanto-me, levantamo-nos, the place of the pronoun in não me levanto, vi-o and comprou-as, dei-lhe and telefonei-lhes, ajuda-me and telefonou-nos, then the forms after a preposition, para mim, para ti, comigo and connosco.
How much and how many (muito, pouco, algum, nenhum, todo o, todos os, tudo), someone and no one (alguém, ninguém, nada), the negatives with não (não vi ninguém, nunca, nem), há, havia and houve with a plural, duas vezes, meia hora, uns dez, and dele, dela, a minha.
A preposition before a question word (a quem, de que, com quem, para onde, por quanto), the question word at the end (Moras onde?), confirmation tags (não é? and the repeated verb), exclamations with que (Que frio! Que bonita é a cidade!) and the subject after the verb (Chegaram os alunos).
A2 35 cards
Portuguese words that differ only by an accent: e (and) and é (is), esta (this) and está (is), pais (parents) and país (country), avó and avô, tem (one) and têm (several), a, à (to the) and há (there is, for). The accent changes the word, so each card asks for the right spelling.
Telling a story in the past with both tenses: the imperfeito for what was going on and the scene (estava a cozinhar, chovia, era noite), the perfeito for what happened (o telefone tocou, saiu), enquanto for two actions at once, and foi or era, esteve or estava for English «was».
A2 88 cards
The negative imperative (não fales, não comas, não abras), the forms for você and vocês (fale, falem), irregular verbs (sê, vai, dá; diga, faça, venha, traga), the pronoun with the imperative (senta-te, não te sentes), polite requests (podes fechar a porta?) and the infinitive as an order (Não fumar).
The pretérito imperfeito for what used to happen and how things were: falava and comia, the irregular era, tinha, vinha and punha, habits with antigamente and dantes, estava sol and havia, queria and podia for polite requests, estava a trabalhar, and ontem fui against dantes ia.
What had already happened before another past event: tinha + participle (já tinha saído, tinham comido), the later event in the perfeito (quando cheguei), negation and questions (não tinha visto, Já tinhas estado em Lisboa?) and the choice between saiu and tinha saído.
The pretérito perfeito simples, the past of a finished action: the endings of -ar, -er and -ir verbs (falei, comi, abri, falámos), the eu spelling (fiquei, cheguei), the irregular fui, tive, fiz, disse, vim, pude, houve, then ontem, há dois dias, já, ainda não and estive a estudar.