Trinta anos na quinta-feira

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Words

63

Sentences

10

Words per sentence

6.3

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• com vocês · Respondam até terça-feira

  vocês is how you address several people, with the verb in the third person plural: respondam. Forms of address: tu, você →

• faço trinta anos · Quem pode vir

  Irregular verbs: faço (fazer), pode (poder) — fazer anos means to have a birthday. Irregular verbs in the present →

• à uma hora

  With one o’clock it is à uma hora (singular), otherwise às duas, às três … Numbers, the time and the date →

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: all 28 of the 47 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• a cara

  the face

  A1

• a esquina

  the corner

  A1

• a farmácia

  the chemist’s

  A1

• a feira

  the fair

  A1

• a hora

  the hour, the time by the clock

  A1

• a mesa

  the table

  A1

• a pessoa

  the person

  A1

• bom

  good

  A1

• comer

  to eat

  A1

• dez

  ten

  A1

• fazer

  to do, to make

  A1

• haver

  there to be

  A1

• novo

  young, new

  A1

• o almoço

  the lunch

  A1

• o ano

  the year

  A1

• o lado

  the side

  A1

• o restaurante

  the restaurant

  A1

• obrigado

  thank you

  A1

• olá

  hello

  A1

• poder

  can, to be able to

  A1

• por favor

  please

  A1

• querer

  to want

  A1

• quinta-feira

  Thursday

  A1

• responder

  to answer

  A1

• ser

  to be (lasting)

  A1

• trinta

  thirty

  A1

• um terço

  a third

  A1

• vir

  to come

  A1

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