Duolingo Flashcards
(26 cards)
when can pronouns be omitted?
when the verb conjugation is unique to one particular pronoun
how can you generally judge the gender of a word (without using the article)?
by the ending: ‘-a’ suggest a feminine, ‘-o’ suggests a masculine
what are the indefinite articles in Portuguese?
‘um’ and ‘uma’
what are the definite articles in Portuguese?
‘a’ and ‘o’
which part of speech do articles in Portuguese change according to?
nouns
what do Portuguese verb endings change according to?
who is performing the action of the verb
which grammatical person does ‘você’ belong to?
the second person
‘você’ follows the conjugation rules of which grammatical person?
the third person
finish the sentence: all regular verbs with the same ending follow the same …
… pattern of conjugation
when shouldn’t you omit a pronoun?
when the sentence doesn’t keep it’s exact meaning without it
which two features of English questions are not present in Portuguese questions?
inverted word order
auxiliary verbs
when saying ‘thank you’ in Portuguese, which word isn’t translated?
you
in what context is ‘de nada’ used?
as a response to someone thanking you
in what context is ‘bem-vindo’ used?
in welcoming someone into your space
in Portuguese, can countable nouns be used in their singular form?
yes, because they have a general meaning
which sentence is grammatically correct: ‘ele não come ovo’ or ‘ele não come ovos’?
both are grammatically correct
when can ‘ter’ be used in reference to food?
in the context of owning, possessing or containing it
when can ‘tomar’ be used in reference to drinks?
in the context of alcoholic beverages
or other drinks that alter a persons state of being or become a part of a person
when a noun is plural, what else must be mad plural?
adjectives, articles, possessors and determiners
when a noun ends in a vowel how is it made plural?
by adding an ‘s’
when a noun ends in ‘r’, ‘s’ or ‘z’ how is it made plural?
by adding ‘es’
when a noun ends in ‘m’ how is it made plural?
by replacing ‘m’ with ‘ns’
when a noun ends in ‘l’ how is it made plural?
by replacing ‘l’ with ‘is’
what two things are important to remember when pluralising a noun that ends in ‘l’?
not to repeat the ‘i’
‘e’ and ‘o’ will need an accent if the word doesn’t already have one
