Portuguese for English speakers
English isn't a Romance language, but it borrowed thousands of words from French and Latin: of the 2,264 everyday words in Cognata, 1,068 have a cognate between English and Portuguese. Start from those, and keep the false friends in sight.
Sets your pairing to English → Portuguese and opens the cognates.
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- 47%
- distant cognates
- 4%
- to learn fresh
- 49%
2,264 words compared
Words you already know
Everyday words whose English and Portuguese forms come from the same source.
False friends to watch
puxar (Portuguese) means “to pull” · push (English) means “to push”
The cruellest trap on a door: both come from Latin PULSĀRE 'to push, beat' (English via Old French pousser). Portuguese turned the sense round to 'pull'; PUXE on a Brazilian door means pull.
Words to learn fresh
Common words where Portuguese went its own way.