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Portuguese For Dummies

Portuguese For Dummies

Portuguese For Dummies
Wiley Publishing | January 2007| 374 pages| ISBN: 0471787388 | PDF | 14 MB
Understanding Basic Portuguese Grammar. Remember that word from high school? Figuring out how to categorize types of words and understanding where they go in a sentence is like putting together a puzzle. And here's some good news: Portuguese and English use only several pieces, and they're the same. Each piece refers to a category of word that's used to put together the sentence � the parts of speech.
Agreeing with nouns and adjectives
Like in English, nouns are one of the main parts of Portuguese speech � the most important pieces of the puzzle. They're used to name people, places, and things, like casa (kah-zah; house), amigo (ah-mee-goo; friend), Maria (mah-dee-ah; the name of a woman), caneta (kah-neh-tah; pen), and Brasil (bdah-zee-ooh; Brazil).
Portuguese nouns come in two types: masculine and feminine. Masculine nouns usually end in an -o, and feminine nouns usually end in an -a. If a noun ends in a different letter, you can look up the word's gender in a Portuguese-English dictionary. At first, imagining that a door, a key, a chair and other "things" can be masculine or feminine can be very weird.
Keep the gender of the thing you're talking about in mind: In Portuguese, every time you describe the noun with an adjective � like bonita (boo-nee-tah; pretty), simp�tico (seem-pah-chee-koo; nice), or grande (gdahn-jee; big) � you change the end of the adjective to make it either masculine or feminine. The adjective's gender should match the gender of the noun. Like nouns, masculine adjectives normally end in -o, and feminine adjectives end in -a.
Another little trick: In Portuguese, the adjective normally comes after the noun. This word order is the opposite of what it is in English, in which people first say the adjective and then the noun (red dress; beautiful sunset). It's one of the few differences in word order between Portuguese and English.