European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese GRAMMAR explained!

European Portuguese vs Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Explained! // Do you study Portuguese from Portugal or Brazilian Portuguese? Do you know the differences between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese? Whether you learn Brazilian Portuguese or European Portuguese you will find these differences in the Portuguese grammar super interesting! If you speak Portuguese or want to learn Portuguese this video will help! Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal by Liz Sharma, a Portuguese teacher in Lisbon and founder of Talk the Streets.

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[TalktheStreets]

What other differences have you noticed between European and Brazilian Portuguese?

[PortugueseWithLeo]

Another great video! Lots of fun to shoot and great breakdown of the differences in grammar!

[gabrielacandidonunes]

Fiquei esperando a Carol, que é mineira, dizer "cê quer ir na festa?" hahah

[hooni]

In Brazil it's easy to find someone saying "tu" instead of "você", buuuut conjugating it the wrong way (if you conjugate it in the correct way, it will sound too formal).

[lcaseli]

Actually both countries use "a gente" and "nós ". In Brazil, we use "nós " not as much as we use "a gente", but both forms are interchangeble. In Portugal, "a gente" is a little less used, but I will not consider that this is a big difference between Brazil and Portugal.
Also, several regions in Brazil prefer "tu" instead of "você " (maybe less than 30-35%). Sometimes informaly saying "tu" and conjugating as "você ".

[Remenry]

I think it's important to highlight that in written form, in formal texts, we brazilians use the "official" grammar form, which is very similar to european form.

[pedrobraga]

Como brasileiro e nordestino apenas digo: LASQUEI-ME! 😂

[LuneFlaneuse]

Thanks for the video! However... :
- A lot of Brazilians use "tu". It depends which area of Brazil you're from. But "tu" is often used with the wrong verb conjugation, when used within an informal context. I don't know how many would agree or disagree that this is acceptable though :D
- We DO use "nós vamos"! This is completely normal! Yes, we use "a gente" all the time, but it's informal.
- "Eu vi ele" / "eu vi ela" is grammatically wrong (in Brazil too).
We use that a lot in Brazil, but whenever I say it, I know I am making a grammar mistake and I wish I hadn't said it :D the correct way is: "eu o vi" / "eu a vi".
Overall, I guess you should specify in this video that this is a more informal way of speaking in Brazil. We spend a loooong time in school studying grammar, verb conjugations, etc etc etc!

[Rachel_Silva]

The islands also use "a gente" instead of nós. They also use the gerund form. I believe it's an old way of speaking that stuck around in the Brazilian colony and the Portuguese islands like the Azores and Madeira.

[emilianofuentes]

Em Portugal 🇵🇹 usa-se também "a gente", mas o que eu pude perceber é que não se usa com o mesmo significado que "nós", mas com o sentido de "uma pessoa ou alguém", quer dizer, para falar de si mesmo, e acho que também usa-se do mesmo modo no Brasil. Seria o equivalente a dizer "uno" em espanhol.
Exemplos disto:
Se no Brasil 🇧🇷 dizermos isto:
🇧🇷 Quando alguém vai à praia, sempre está cheia.
🇧🇷 Quando a pessoa vai à praia, sempre está cheia.
🇧🇷 Quando você vai à praia, sempre está cheia.
Em Portugal 🇵🇹 e em espanhol o equivalente era dizer:
🇵🇹 Quando a gente vai à praia, sempre está cheia
🇲🇽 Cuando uno va a la playa, siempre está llena.

[keanancupido]

An amazing video Liz as always! I had no idea the Brazilians used gente like this😱
I'm excited to see you and Leo's video in Portuguese!

[ricardocfidelis]

6:40 sentences like "te amo" are not grammatically correct in brazil too, but we always use them in informal situations. If we are in a formal situation, the right form is "amo-te", like in Portugal (pronouns can't start the sentence).

[vitoandolini]

Novamente. A escolha pelo uso de “nós” ou “a gente” não implica em mudanças gramaticais regionais, mas na migração da flexão do verbo da segunda pessoa do plural para a terceira pessoa do singular. A gramática é a mesma.

[arlan_imagesBoston]

I have to disagree, Both countries use “a gente” at least speaking for the azoreans. I know quite a lot of azorean people who use “a gente “ also, In brazil people say it BOTH ways, “a gente vai” e “Nós vamos “. I love your videos by the way ♥️

[daniy]

"A gente" is just colloquial and its used in Brazil and Portugal but everybody knows that the correct is to use "nós" and its commonly used everywhere.

In general what you are explaining are differences in the use of the grammar, they are not differences in grammar since Portuguese as only one grammar.

[gustavopm]

I come from Pernambuco, in northeast Brazil. We tend to use "tu" here, although sometimes people conjugate the following verb as if they had used "você" instead. Another fun quirk from my state's dialect is that we often say "[tu] Queres?" with the hidden tu, like the Portuguese, instead of "você quer?"

[mavotinho]

A sua pronúncia é linda tanto em inglês quanto em português europeu e brasileiro. Parabéns!

[ernestchacon]

Brazilian Portuguese is much easier to understand, they pronounce the words much clearer.

[Ana_Paula.Frasson]

Achei a explicação sobre colocação pronominal incompleta, considerando a existência dos 3 tipos (próclise, ênclise e mesóclise), no Brasil, a frase "I love you", seria realmente "eu te amo" (próclise), porém tirando o pronome reto "eu", o pronome oblíquo "te" automaticamente pula pro fim da frase "amo-te" (ênclise). Claro q no dia a dia, principalmente nas regiões mais populosas e tb na internet, ninguém se incomodaria de ouvir "te amo". No entanto, como o foco do vídeo era a gramática em si, considerei importante pontuar isso.

[leothefirst]

Love the video. As a Brazilian, I find it hilarious to see the words and grammatical structures I use every single day be dissected and compared to the European variation like this.