Possessive Pronouns in Portuguese: My, Your, Our, Their Made Easy

The kitty in the picture is my precious baby doll, Amahle. Because she is a girl, when I say “my cat,” I say minha gata. If my kitty were a boy, I’d say meu gato. If I had two cats and one was a boy, I’d say meus gatos. In Portuguese, possessive pronouns can be […]
Learn Portuguese: Simple words, double meaning in Portuguese – Part 1


Just like in English, there are words in Portuguese that either look or sound like other words. Four that come to mind rather quickly are seu, sua, são and vão. You may very well recognize all of these words for their most used definitions. Below, I’ll show you what else two of these words mean (and, in another post, I’ll talk about the other two).