55 Words to Boost Your Vocabulary - with Video

I have talked about patterns between English and Portuguese in previous posts.  I gave you a list of cognates -- words that are very similar -- and I listed ninety words that are easy to memorize.

Today I will give you a list of 55 words with the following pattern:

• Words that end in -AL in English end in -AL in Portuguese, too.

Here is the best part: Many of these words have the exact same spelling in English and in Portuguese. The pronunciation is different, of course. This is a great opportunity to observe those differences and transfer them to other words in your learning journey.

I will divide the words in two lists: nouns and adjectives. For the nouns, you will see the indication of their gender. The adjectives have only one form for both feminine and masculine.

In the video I pronounce the words for you. Notice that the stress syllable is the last one. The English words are in alphabetical order.

Nouns:

Adjectives

I hope you have fun using your new vocabulary.

This list is from the book Instant Brazilian Portuguese Vocabulary Builder, by Tom Means.

For similar vocabulary videos, check out these posts:

• 40 Easy Words to Learn: Use Patterns to Your Benefit - with video
• 90 New Words that You Will Have No Trouble Memorizing - with Video
• Quick Vocabulary Building - Cognates - with Video

Valeu!

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