Day 5 – numbers and asking questions
Read over the previous day’s lesson and listen to the audio
Numbers 1-10
Numbers are not too difficult. Listen to the audio below and repeat what is said. It helps to say it with a bit of a rhythm…
Audio: Listen and repeat.
1 – um; 2 – dois; 3 – trés | 4 – quatro; 5 – cinco; 6 – seis |
7 – sete; 8 – oito; 9 – nove; 10 – dez
1- um / uma | um quarto / uma mesa – one bedroom / one table
2- dois / duas | dois filhos / duas filhas – two sons / two daughters
3 – três | três noites – three nights
4 – quatro | quatro pessoas – four people
5 – cinco | cinco anos – five years
6 – seis | seis casas – six houses
7 – sete | sete dias – seven days
8 – oito | oito horas – eight hours
9 – nove | nove gatos – nine cats
10 – dez | dez euros – ten euros
Note: The ‘s’ at the beginning of word sounds like a regular ‘s’. The ‘s’ at the end of a word sounds like the ‘s’ in the word ‘pleasure’ somewhere between a ‘z’ and a ‘j’. The ‘s’ between vowels sounds like a ‘z’
Text
Jack is a doctor and he is French. He works in a private clinic in the Algarve. He is very tall, has brown hair, blue eyes and wears glasses. He is very kind and likes animals. He has 2 children. One boy and one girl.
Now listen to the text in Portuguese and follow as you read it.
Audio text
Portuguese text
O Jack é médico e é francês. Ele trabalha numa clínica privada no Algarve. Ele é muito alto, tem cabelo castanho, olhos azuis e usa óculos. Ele é muito simpático e gosta de animais. Ele tem dois filhos, um menino e uma menina.
Breakdown – with some added bits… 🙂
Audio 1. Listen and repeat
O Jack é – Jack is
ele é – he is
ela é – she is
trabalha – he / she works
num/ numa – in a
clínica privada – private clinic
escola – school
no / na – in the
no Algarve – in the algarve
na cidade – in the city
muito alto – very tall (m)
muito alta – very tall (f)
baixo – short / low (m)
baixa – short / low (f)
Audio 2. Listen and repeat
tem – he has / she has
cabelo escuro – dark hair
cabelo claro – light hair
cabelo castanho – brown hair
cabelo preto – black hair
olhos azuis – blue eyes
olhos verdes – green eyes
usa óculos – he / she wears (uses) glasses
muito simpático – very nice (man)
muito simpática – very nice (woman)
gosta de animais – he likes animals
tem dois filhos – he has two children
grande – large
pequeno – small
Note: the ‘o’ at the end of a word sounds more like ‘oo’. The ‘a’ at the end of a word sounds like ‘eh’ (or even like the ‘er’ in the word ‘butter’.)
The word for blonde in Portuguese is ‘loiro / loira‘ (also louro / loura ), and red hair is ‘ruivo / ruiva’. It is used in a similar way to the way we use it:
Ele é louro – he is blonde
Ela é ruiva – she is a red head
Negative and asking questions
Audio. Listen and repeat ( you should know that already 🙂 )
To say something in the negative we simply place ‘não’ before the verb.
e.g:
O João não gosta da escola – João doesn’t like school
A Maria não usa óculos – Maria doesn’t use (wear) glasses
Ele não é loiro – he is not blonde
O Miguel não é médico – Miguel isn’t a doctor
Asking Questions
To ask a question, we change the way we say it. The word order doesn’t change. The tone is raised towards the end.
O João gosta da escola? – does João like school?
A Maria é enfermeira? – is Maria a nurse
Tu és espanhola? – are you Spanish?
Write a text similar to the Portuguese text above in your notebook, only this time for Alice who is a teacher, changing the following; German, works in a school, short, blonde, has green eyes, doesn’t wear glasses, friendly, likes cats, has two little girls.
Answer to this exercise is in Lesson 6
Don’t forget to take the quiz! 🙂
When you say I like… Is it gosto da or gosto de
The verb gostar is always used with the preposition ‘de’. If the noun after is feminine it becomes ‘da’ if the noun after is masculine ‘do’. There are also the plural forms : das/dos.
Ele gosta da casa – he likes the house
Eu gosto do café aqui – I like the coffee here
Nós gostamos das árvores e dos rios – we like the trees and the rivers
When you say.. She has two little girls… Your answer was.. Ela tem duas meninas…
Don’t you say.. Little them??… Perquena meninas??
Meninas can translate as little girls or rather young girls (not small girls)
We could also say meninas pequenas but we don’t really need to. The word for girl is rapariga – but if we say ‘rapariga pequena’ – this might mean that we are talking about a ‘small girl’
When we say “he likes animals” why is it “ele gosta de animais” instead of “ele gosta dos animais”? Thanks!
Hi Natalie,
Good question. ‘Ele gosta de animais’ means ‘He likes animals’ – in general. Whereas ‘Ele gosta dos animais’ would mean ‘he likes the animals’. The latter being more specific.
e.g. Eu gosto de café. Eu gosto muito do café aqui neste bar.
Oh, that makes sense! Thank you so much for the reply — very helpful!
You are welcome. If you need any further help, just let me know.
In shock got 100% first time maybe it is sinking in 😲
That is great! Keep up the good work!