How to Say More and More and Less and Less in Portuguese
Here is a very useful structure in Portuguese:
- Cada vez mais = more and more; literally: each time more
- Cada vez menos = less and less; literally: each time less
The examples below will get you ready to use your new Portuguese language structure. I will organize the examples in three sections:
- Cada vez mais
- Cada vez menos
- Special cases
Dar-se bem: To get along well & To do well
I recently posted the pictures below on our Facebook page. Dar-se bem is a common idiomatic expression in Brazilian Portuguese. It has two different translations to English, and for each meaning, a different preposition is used. I am sure that this will be useful to all learners of Portuguese.
Notice that the verb is used with the reflexive pronoun in these expressions.
A Sneak Peek at Our New Logo
I wish I had kept pictures of our first website, back in 2008. It was a simple website and I loved it so much.
It was a big deal for me to decide to stop teaching elsewhere and start my own Portuguese language school. I owe the inspiration to do so to my client Blake who kept telling me time and time again that I needed to have my own teaching practice.
Learn Portuguese: Oops, there's no accent there!
Even after a decade since I picked up my first Brazilian Portuguese grammar book, I still wonder about the placement of an accent here or there. Online, there’s tons of blogs and sites in Portuguese that talk about the spelling reform from a few years back, and all the rules that accompanied it. A lot of that information concerns (mostly) accute accents and whether the word is paroxytone or proparoxytone, etc (linguistic terms regarding syllable stress).
Learn Portuguese: How to say "Any Questions?" in Portuguese
Very often literal translation from English to Portuguese or from Portuguese to English is not the best way to say what you want. Here is a good example:
- Alguma dúvida?
Literally, this question translates to: “Any doubt? But in the classroom setting it is the Portuguese equivalent to “Any questions?”
Learn Portuguese: How to use Eu after prepositions to say With me, For me, To me, and more – Video lesson
In this Portuguese lesson I will show you how to use the personal pronoun Eu after prepositions such as de, para, por, sem, em, com, and entre. In other words, I will show you how to say things such as “with me”, “without me”, “for me”, etc. You can tell this is going to be a very useful lesson. You will need it if you’d like to say something like “Is this gift for me?” or “You cannot live without me” or “Get away from me!” ;) If you are wondering if you can’t simply say “para eu” or “sem eu”, the answer is absolutely not.
I will also show you two cases that Brazilians often get wrong. As an added benefit from this lesson, I recommend that you observe what preposition I am using with each verb presented in the examples. Translate to your own language and notice what we say the same way and what we say differently. This is a good way to learn how to correctly match verbs and prepositions.
