Learn the top adjectives to describe people
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| Hi, everyone, here's Paloma from PortuguesePod101.com. Welcome to WhiteBoard lessons! Today, we're going to talk about Top Adjectives to Describe People. |
| Ok, so first, let's start with the vocabulary. |
| novo (m.) and nova (f.) means "young" |
| novo (m.), nova (f.) |
| Next, we have... |
| velho (m.) and velha (f.), means "old" |
| velho (m.), velha (f.), those are opposites. |
| novo (m.) velho (m.) |
| nova (f.) velha (f.) |
| Next is... |
| baixo (m.) and baixa (f.), means "short" |
| And we have... |
| alto (m.) and alta (f.), means "tall" |
| magro (m.) and magra (f.) means "thin" |
| magro (m.), magra (f.) |
| And... |
| gordo (m.) and gorda (f.), means "fat" |
| So we have two pairs here, |
| baixo (m.) alto (m.) |
| baixa (f.) alta (f.) |
| And, |
| magro (m.) gordo (m.) |
| magra (f.) gorda (f.) |
| Just be careful because if you say gordo and gorda to someone, it may sound a little bit as an offensive objective. Ok? |
| Next we have, |
| feio (m.) and feia (f.), means "ugly" |
| And, |
| bonito (m.) and bonita (f.), it means "pretty" |
| We also have, |
| fofo (m.) and fofa (f.), that means "cute" |
| And, |
| lindo (m.) and linda (f.), that means "beautiful" |
| So basically, these three can be the opposite of feio. |
| So we have feio, and the opposite is bonito (m.), fofo (m.), or lindo (m.). |
| And feia (f.), the opposite is bonita (f.), fofa (f.), or linda (f.) |
| Last one is atraente (m., f.). |
| Atraente, that means "good-looking" |
| Atraente |
| Ok, so now, let's see the dialogue. |
| Aquele é o meu irmão. |
| Nossa, ele é alto. |
| "That's my brother." |
| "Oh, he's tall." |
| So you can see the adjective here, alto. Since you're talking about the brother, irmão, that is a man, we say alto. Ok? The masculine form. |
| Let see some other examples. |
| We also have - Ele é magro. "He's thin." |
| Ele é magro. |
| And - Ela é bonita. |
| Ela é bonita. See, we use -a because we're talking about ela, "she." "She's pretty." |
| If you want to switch, it will be: |
| Ela é magra. and Ele é bonito. |
| Ok? "He's pretty" or "he's handsome." |
| Ok, so finally, let's see the main pattern. |
| That's: Ele é / Ela é, and then the adjective. |
| "He is / She is [adjective]." |
| Ok? |
| Ele é magro. |
| Ela é bonita. |
| Ele é novo. |
| Ela é alta. |
| Ok? Just make sure to use the correct adjective with the correct person. You can also use the name of the person if you want here, for example, Paolo é alto, Maria é bonita. Ok? |
| So as I said before, in Brazil, if you say gordo and gorda, it may sound too direct and may offend the other person. So an alternative that you can use is gordinho or gordinha, which is the diminutive form. |
| Gordinho and gordinha |
| That's the famous -nho and -nha in Portuguese. It makes a word diminutive. So gordinho literally means "little fat," but we translate it as "chubby". Ok? |
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