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abafadores - earmuffs/headphones; abençoado - blessed; aberta - opened; abraço - hug; absolutamente - absolutely; acabado - finished; acabar - to end; acalma - calm down
Historical map of the Portuguese language (Galaico-português) since the year 1,000. However, other languages that came into contact with it have also left their mark. In the thirteenth century, the lexicon of Portuguese had about 80% words of Latin origin and 20% of pre-Roman Gallaecian and Celtiberian, Germanic, Greek and Arabic origin. [1]
Afrikaans; Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Aragonés; Asturianu; Avañe'ẽ; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Banjar; Башҡортса
In Brazilian Portuguese, only American and British-style quote marks are used. “Isto é um exemplo de como fazer uma citação em português brasileiro.” “This is an example of how to make a quotation in Brazilian Portuguese.” In both varieties of the language, dashes are normally used for direct speech rather than quotation marks:
I previously noticed that the word for "thank you" sounds very similar in japanese and portuguese. It is arigato in Japanse, and obrigado in Portuguese (Plese feel free to correct the spelling of these words). I once traveled to India, and I have been told that "thank you" is also the term in the local language used to say thank you.
Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon.Both belong to a subset of the Romance languages known as West Iberian Romance, which also includes several other languages or dialects with fewer speakers, all of which are mutually intelligible to some degree.
French gratte-ciel, Catalan gratacels, Spanish rascacielos, Portuguese arranha-céus, Romanian zgârie-nori and Italian grattacielo calque English skyscraper; French sabot de Denver calques English Denver boot; French jardin d'enfants, Spanish jardín de infancia and Portuguese Jardim de infância calque German Kindergarten (children's garden)
A list of loanwords from the Italian language into the Portuguese language, also called italianisms. According to the Dicionário Universal da Lingua Portuguesa, there are 535 known and registered italianisms in the Portuguese language.