Duolingo

Question 1

when can pronouns be omitted?

Answer 1

when the verb conjugation is unique to one particular pronoun

Question 2

how can you generally judge the gender of a word (without using the article)?

Answer 2

by the ending: ‘-a’ suggest a feminine, ‘-o’ suggests a masculine

Question 3

what are the indefinite articles in Portuguese?

Answer 3

‘um’ and ‘uma’

Question 4

what are the definite articles in Portuguese?

Answer 4

‘a’ and ‘o’

Question 5

which part of speech do articles in Portuguese change according to?

Answer 5

nouns

Question 6

what do Portuguese verb endings change according to?

Answer 6

who is performing the action of the verb

Question 7

which grammatical person does ‘você’ belong to?

Answer 7

the second person

Question 8

‘você’ follows the conjugation rules of which grammatical person?

Answer 8

the third person

Question 9

finish the sentence: all regular verbs with the same ending follow the same …

Answer 9

… pattern of conjugation

Question 10

when shouldn’t you omit a pronoun?

Answer 10

when the sentence doesn’t keep it’s exact meaning without it

Question 11

which two features of English questions are not present in Portuguese questions?

Answer 11

inverted word order

auxiliary verbs

Question 12

when saying ‘thank you’ in Portuguese, which word isn’t translated?

Answer 12

you

Question 13

in what context is ‘de nada’ used?

Answer 13

as a response to someone thanking you

Question 14

in what context is ‘bem-vindo’ used?

Answer 14

in welcoming someone into your space

Question 15

in Portuguese, can countable nouns be used in their singular form?

Answer 15

yes, because they have a general meaning

Question 16

which sentence is grammatically correct: ‘ele não come ovo’ or ‘ele não come ovos’?

Answer 16

both are grammatically correct

Question 17

when can ‘ter’ be used in reference to food?

Answer 17

in the context of owning, possessing or containing it

Question 18

when can ‘tomar’ be used in reference to drinks?

Answer 18

in the context of alcoholic beverages

or other drinks that alter a persons state of being or become a part of a person

Question 19

when a noun is plural, what else must be mad plural?

Answer 19

adjectives, articles, possessors and determiners

Question 20

when a noun ends in a vowel how is it made plural?

Answer 20

by adding an ‘s’

Question 21

when a noun ends in ‘r’, ‘s’ or ‘z’ how is it made plural?

Answer 21

by adding ‘es’

Question 22

when a noun ends in ‘m’ how is it made plural?

Answer 22

by replacing ‘m’ with ‘ns’

Question 23

when a noun ends in ‘l’ how is it made plural?

Answer 23

by replacing ‘l’ with ‘is’

Question 24

what two things are important to remember when pluralising a noun that ends in ‘l’?

Answer 24

not to repeat the ‘i’

‘e’ and ‘o’ will need an accent if the word doesn’t already have one

Question 25

translate: your books are red

Answer 25

os teus livros são vermelhos

Question 26

translate: your apples are red

Answer 26

as tuas maçãs são vermelhas