Portuguese Grammar

Adjective

Adjectives are words that are used to describe the qualities and characteristics of objects, people, places and concepts.

Adverb

An adverb is a word that modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, clauses or sentences. They don’t change in gender or number.

Article

Articles precede a noun — that is a person, object, place or concept — to help define certain qualities about the word and indicate whether it refers to something specific or generic.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous refer to grammar concepts that do not neatly fall under common categories like "Noun" or "Verb."

Mood

The mood refers to the speaker’s attitude toward the occurrence that the verb expresses.

Noun

A noun is the type of word that provides names to beings, objects, places, concepts, phenomena, etc.

Preposition

A preposition connects elements that serve distinct roles in a sentence in a way that indicates a relationship of meaning or dependency. Prepositions are unchangeable and are always used in relation to other words.

Pronoun

Pronouns are terms that replace or accompany a person, object, place or concept.

Tense

The tense of a verb specifies when the action or event occurs.

Verb

A verb is a word that expresses an action, state or natural phenomenon.