Essential Portuguese Grammar
All The Grammar Really Needed For Speech And Comprehension
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Essential Portuguese Grammar
All The Grammar Really Needed For Speech And Comprehension
About This Book
This is the first Portuguese grammar designed specifically for adults with limited learning time, who have as their objective simple, everyday communication. The author covers the most important points of Portuguese grammar in the clearest possible way, concentrating upon the expressions that you would be most likely to use. All grammatical rules are illustrated with phrases and sentences that you can incorporate directly into your working vocabulary, and hints are generously sprinkled throughout, showing you how to replace difficult constructions with simpler ones.
Constantly drawing comparisons with English construction, it presents in logical order all the major aspects of Portuguese grammar: word order, forming questions, nouns and articles, adjectives and adverbs, possessives, demonstrative adjectives and pronouns, how to form negatives, personal pronouns, conjunctions and prepositions, how to conjugate verbs in the major tenses, prepositions and infinitives, and so on.
This grammar does not assume prior knowledge of either Portuguese grammar or of grammatical terms: one section is devoted to the definition of all grammatical terms used in the book.
This is not a simplified study, but rather a selected grammar for adult use that points out many time-saving short cuts. It can be used alone either as a beginner or as a refresher course in Portuguese grammar or it can be an ideal supplement to a phrase book or record course for home study or class use. Contains four appendices covering regular conjugations, orthographic-changing verbs, and irregular verbs. Glossary of grammatical terms. Index.
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VERBS
Comparison of English and Portuguese Verbs
The Three Conjugations
falar (to speak) | first conjugation |
vender (to sell) | second conjugation |
partir (to depart) | third conjugation |
The Present Tense
Comparison of Present Tense in English and Portuguese
First Conjugation
(eu) falo | I speak, am speaking, do speak |
(tu) falas | you (fam. sing.) speak, are speaking, do speak |
(ele) fala | he (she, it) speaks, is speaking, does speak; you (polite sing.) speak, are speaking, do speak 18 |
(nós) falamos | we speak, are speaking, do speak |
(vós) falais | you (formal fam. pl.) speak, are speaking, do speak |
(eles) falam | they speak, are speaking, do speak; you (polite pl.) speak, are speaking, do speak |
Second Conjugation
Table of contents
- DOVER BOOKS ON LANGUAGE
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- SUGGESTIONS FOR VOCABULARY BUILDING
- WORD ORDER
- HOW TO FORM QUESTIONS
- NOUNS AND ARTICLES
- ADJECTIVES
- ADVERBS
- COMPARISONS OF ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
- EXPRESSING POSSESSION
- DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS
- PERSONAL PRONOUNS
- NEGATIVES
- QUE AS CONJUNCTION AND RELATIVE PRONOUN
- PREPOSITIONS
- CONJUNCTIONS
- VERBS
- SOME USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
- Appendix A - COMPLETE PARADIGM OF THE THREE REGULAR CONJUGATIONS
- Appendix B - ORTHOGRAPHIC-CHANGING VERBS
- Appendix C - RADICAL-CHANGING VERBS
- Appendix D - IRREGULAR VERBS
- A GLOSSARY OF GRAMMATICAL TERMS
- INDEX
- A CATALOG OF SELECTED DOVER BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS OF INTEREST