LESSON 04

CALENDARY – Understand the origin of the names of weekdays in Portuguese, months, seasons, etc. A full year is broken down in months and seasons, so that you can plan your learning or business trips to Brazil in accordance with the weather.

Verb TER – Imagine it’s raining a lot today, and you must stay home. What can you do? O QUE VOCAS PODE FAZER?. Learn about this verb and other Portuguese verbs here.

VOCABULARY – here you will find a translation for the most important words. Portuguese and English versions organized in a translation table.

EXERCISE – practice what you learnt in this lesson in our Portuguese exercises.

ANSWERS – check your answers and learning achievements.

Lesson Content:

Calendary, days of the week in Portuguese, Months in Brazilian Portuguese, Seasons, Seasons of the year in Brazil, Verb Have, Exercises, Answers, Sound Files, Take a look at the weekdays. In Portuguese, we don’t follow the astrological way of naming it. We follow the Latin idea that a day is usually a féria, and it is related to the liturgical prayers. Back in the Roman Period, the pope decided to name the weekdays after the praying moment of the day. That’s why we use the word FEIRA after the numbers designating the weekday. We go from Sunday “ DOMINGO- to number 2 to 6 and then SA?BADO, remaining the Jewish Sabbath. In this case, for the number, it is used the ordinal number.

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