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Portuguese flag
Portuguese - English
English - Portuguese
Do you have
a Portuguese flag
Português - inglês
Inglês - português
Você tem
uma bandeira portuguesa
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
vermelho - red (like vermilion)
laranja (like orange)
amarelo
verde (like verdant)
azul
navy blue/dark blue
violet
purple
pink
black - white
Português - inglês
Inglês - português
Você tem
azul marinho / azul escuro (like marine, like obscure)
tolet (violet and tolet both end with et)
roxa
Rosa (like rose pink)
Preto - black; branco - white (like blank white paper)
grey
not grey
striped
patterned
no striped
polka dots
coloured
multi coloured
bright colours
pale colours
cinzento
não cinza
listrado (striped like lines crossing out a shopping list)
estampado (pattern stamped on it)
não listrado
bolinhas
colori - coloured
multi colorido - multi coloured
cores brilhantes - brilliant colours
cores pálidas - pale colours
I like
I want
small
bigger
how much
cheaper
Perfect
I'll buy it
Thank you
Goodbye
Eu gosto
eu quero
pequeno
Maior (big or major)
quanto
mais barato (m for much or more)
Perfeito - perfect PERFE .T in both words
Vou comprar
Obrigado - obliged/much obliged/ thanks
Adeus - like mixing Spanish adios with French adieu
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a trave writer and phtographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.
Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a langauge evaluator or grammarian. We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.
I am President of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting every Wednesday, on zoom the first Wednesday of the month but the other Wednesdays are workshops on app learncool.sg
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Useful Websites
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8384769/Major-breakthrough-hunt-Madeleine-McCann-police-identify-German-suspect.html
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_patrim%C3%B3nio_edificado_no_distrito_de_Faro
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