Tuesday, January 23, 2018

How do you say please in Portuguese - is it like Spanish and Italian?

Problem
How do you say please and thank you and coffee with cream in Portuguese? It is similar to Italian?

Answers
Portguese is similar to both Italian and Spanish. Portuguese has many words with the letter M.

English - Portuguese - - Italiano
black - preto - - nero
coffee - café - - caffè
cream - creme - - panne
double - duplo - - doppio
don't mention it - - na verdade / não menciona - prego
please - por favor - - por favore (Literally for favour. Remember the English phrase 'do me a favour'.)
thanks - obrigado - - grazie (Like the English phrase much obliged.)
with - com - - con

Italiano - Portugese  - inglês
Caffè - café - coffee
con - com - with
doppio - duplo - double
grazie - obrigado - thanks
nero - preto - black
Panne - creme - cream
por favore - por favor - please
prego - nao mesmo / não mencione - don't mention it

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of languages

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