How to use demonstrative pronouns in Portuguese

How to use demonstrative pronouns in Portu­guese

You want to learn how to use demonstrative pronouns in Portuguese? You've come to the right place! Scroll down and see the short Portuguese lessons complete with useful examples. This house, that house... we make learning Portuguese demonstrative pronouns easy for you.

Portu­guese demonstrative pronouns : this

Demonstrative pronouns are used with nouns to make them more specific. The English demonstrative pronoun 'this' is 'este' or 'esta' in Portuguese. The word 'este' is used with masculine words and the word 'esta' is used with feminine words.

Examples

esta porta
this door
esta pedra
this stone
esta criança
this child
este homem
this man
esta mesa
this table
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Basic words and phrases in Portu­guese

Learn to get by in Portuguese with these useful words and phrases. The phrases below will help you to greet people in Portuguese, introduce yourself in Portuguese and even hold a conversation in Portuguese after you have met someone.

Está chovendo.
It is raining.
Está nevando.
It is snowing.
Que temperatura faz ?
What is the temperature ?
Está ventando.
It is windy.
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Step 6 : Portu­guese demonstrative pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns are used to refer to specific objects and their locations. In English, this would be the words this and these to refer to objects which are near and that and those to refer to objects which are further away. Using the nouns livro, cadeira and porta (book, chair, door) which you learned in Step 3, learn to use the demonstrative pronouns with each of these nouns (this book, that chair, these doors). You can scroll to the top of this page to see a short lesson about Portuguese demonstrative pronouns including useful examples. After you've learned to use the Portuguese demonstrative pronouns with the nouns livro, cadeira and porta and the plural nouns livros, cadeiras and portas you can move on to Step 7 (Portuguese adjectives).

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