More Portuguese Words For Supermarket Shopping - with my memory aids to help you

 

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Portuguese - English

batata - potato

especial - special

fresca - fresh

gelado - ice

leite - milk

marca - brand

maio - May (no need to capitalise the initials of months in Portuguese)

meses - months

o - the

ovos - eggs (like the English word ovary)

pastel - pastry

queijo - cheese

queijos - cheeses

rustico - country style (lik ethe English word rustic)

sal - salt

soja - soy

vinho - wine (like the English word vine)

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English - Portuguese

brand - marca

cheese - queijo

cheeses - queijos

Country style - rustico

eggs - ovos

fresh - fresca (the first four letters are the same)

ice (cream) - gelado (the Italians have gelato)

May (the month) - maio

milk - leite (like the French word lait)

months - meses

pastry - pastel

potato - batata (tat in the middle of both words)

salt - sal (the same word was English without the t)

soy - soja

special -  especial (add e before s like the Spanish name for their country Espana)

wine - vinho

Useful Websites

duolingo

Wikivoyage Portugal phrasebooks

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Portuguese_phrasebook

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese_phrasebook

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Portuguese Words You Can Easily Learn From A Supermarket Leaflet

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 I was on holiday in Portugal in June, 2024 and picked up a supermarket leaflet, which I kept to help learn some Portuguese words. Now, In March 2025, I am tidying the house and throwing away some of the many leaflets I have picked up in my travels.

Before throwing away the leaflet, I thought I would fulfil my original intention of  translating it and learning some everyday words which are useful to use or at least recognize on signs. when shopping in Portugal.

Portuguese - English

altura - height

bem - well\

bola - ball

catergoria - category

com - with

de - of

e - and

em - in

forno - oven

fresca - fresh

infantil - child

iogurte - yogurt

liquido - liquid

mais - most

oliveira - olive

origem - (place of) origin

pera - pear

peso - weight

pimento - pepper

por - for

porco - pork

Precos - prices (note the cedilla under the c in Portuguese)

salada - salad

sardinha - sardine

tigre - tiger

unid - unit / single item

verde - green

viver - to live viver bem - to live well

English - Portuguese

and - e

ball - bola

Child - i (plural) nfantil

fresh - fresca

fruit - fruta (singular) frutas (plural)

green - verde

in - em

item (single) / unit - unid

Italian - Italiano

julho - July

junho - June

liquid - liquido

meat - carne (like carnivore)

to live well - 

olive - oliveira

origin - origen

oven - forno

pear - pera (the same letters but in a different order)

pork - porco

salad - salada

sardine - sardinha

tigre - tiger

weight - peso

yogurt - iogurte

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Learn another set of ten easy Portuguese words at the restaurant table

Portuguese - English
carne - meat
começar - commence / start
ementa - menu (both words have the letters MEN in the middle)
entrada - starter
mesa - table
sim - yes (like the Spanish si but with an extra M, like so many Portuguese words)
solteira - single (female not married)
solteiro - single (male not married)
tinto - red (wine - like tinted)
tipo - type
truta - trout

English - Portuguese
meat - carne (like carnivore or carnivorous)
menu - ementa
single (female) - solteira
single (male) - solteiro
start / commence - commeçar (the Portuguese ends not A but AR like the middle letters of stARt
starter - entrada
table - mesa
trout - truta
type - tipo
yes - sim

Useful Websites
https://www.visitportugal.com/en
http://www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/homepage
http://visitbrasil.com/en/
https://www.duolingo.com/course/pt/en/Learn-Portuguese-Online

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