Portuguese grammar

Choose Portuguese articles by meaning and match them to a noun’s gender and number.

Choose and agree Portuguese possessives to express who something belongs to.

Combine em, de and por with definite articles and choose the correct contracted form.

Conjugate regular -ar, -er and -ir verbs in the present and use them for current situations and routines.

Use five common irregular verbs in the present tense to talk about possession, movement, actions, ability and wishes.

Choose and conjugate ser and estar to describe identity, characteristics, states and location.

Choose demonstratives by distance and match them to the noun, or use a neuter form when no noun is specified.

Use ir + infinitive to talk about future actions and plans.

Compare people and things and describe the highest or lowest degree within a group.

Replace people or things with object pronouns and position them in simple European Portuguese sentences.

Describe past habits, ongoing situations, and background details, and distinguish them from completed events.

Use regular and common irregular verbs to describe completed past events.

Describe actions in progress and distinguish them from habits and completed actions.

You will learn to choose a reflexive pronoun and place it before or after the verb.

Form the future indicative and use it to describe future events, predictions and promises.

Use the conditional to express hypothetical results, polite requests and future events viewed from the past.

Give instructions, advice and prohibitions using affirmative and negative commands in European Portuguese.

Choose por or para to express purpose, destination, cause, route, duration and exchange.

Choose and form the present subjunctive after common expressions of desire, doubt, judgment and purpose.

Choose between completed past events and past habits, states or background actions.