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Portuguese grammar

Every Portuguese grammar topic, in one place

Filter by CEFR level, search by topic, and pick the piece that fits what you are stuck on. The catalogue covers the full set of Portuguese grammar rules from the SVO baseline at A1 to the register-shifting moves at C1.

Studying for Pearson Edexcel GCSE Portuguese? See every grammar structure the specification prescribes, and where each one is taught. Start with the Portuguese alphabet. Every letter, its sound and how to type it, before the grammar.

  1. Beginner (A1-A2)

    A Gente, Você and O Senhor

    In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, we is a gente and you is você, and both take the ele verb form. Here is who gets o senhor, vocês and tu.

  2. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Adjectives

    Portuguese adjectives agree with their noun and usually come after it. Four endings, the plurals that bite, and the adjectives that change meaning when moved.

  3. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Adverbs

    Portuguese adverbs are mostly built from one rule: feminine adjective plus -mente. The rule, the accents it deletes, the false friends, and a quiz.

  4. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Articles

    Portuguese articles agree with their noun like adjectives do, fuse with de and em into do and no, and vanish for jobs, nationality and marital status.

  5. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Big Numbers

    Duzentas pessoas, mil without um, um milhão de with de, and a Lisbon bilião a thousand times a Brazilian bilhão: Portuguese numbers past a hundred.

  6. Beginner (A1-A2)

    Brazilian vs European Portuguese

    Brazilian vs European Portuguese side by side: pronunciation, tu against você, pronoun placement, the progressive and the everyday words that change.

All Portuguese grammar topics, A-Z

Beginner (A1-A2)

Intermediate (B1-B2)