Learn how to talk about currency
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| Hi everyone, I'm Paloma. Oi, gente! Aqui é a Paloma, and welcome to another whiteboard lesson. |
| Today, we are going to talk about Brazilian currency and large numbers in Portuguese. |
| Ok, so let's jump right into the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| First one is dez, ten. |
| Second, eleven, onze. |
| Doze, twelve. Treze, thirteen. |
| Quatorze, fourteen. Quinze, fifteen. |
| Dezesseis, sixteen. And dezessete. |
| Dezessete is seventeen. |
| Dezoito, eighteen. |
| Next one is dezenove, nineteen. |
| Vinte, twenty. Then we're going to the tens, trinta, thirty, quarenta, forty, |
| cinquenta, fifty. Sessenta, sixty. Setenta, seventy, |
| oitenta, eighty, noventa, ninety. |
| And the last one is cem. You actually have two ways of saying it. If it's just a number 100, we say cem. |
| But if it's 100 and something, then we use cento. Cem or cento. Cem, cento. |
| Next one is duzentos, two hundred. Trezentos, three hundred. Quatrocentos, four hundred. Quinhentos, five hundred. |
| Seiscentos, six hundred. Setecentos, seven hundred. Oitocentos, eight hundred. Novecentos, nine hundred, and one thousand. |
| Mil, mil. |
| Okay, let's see the last ones. |
| Two thousand, dois mil, três mil, three thousand. Quatro mil, four thousand. Cinco mil, five thousand. |
| Seis mil, six thousand. Sete mil, seven thousand. Oito mil, eight thousand. Nove mil, nine thousand. |
| And the last one is dez mil, ten thousand. |
| So actually for the numbers três and dez, you can just say both dez, dez or três, três |
| both ways are correct in Portuguese. |
| Now let's move on to the dialogue for today. |
| Quanto custa? Custa vinte e cinco reais. |
| Quanto custa?, how much does it cost? |
| Custa vinte e cinco reais. |
| It costs twenty-five reais. |
| So you can see the currency in Brazil is real, and the plural form is reais. |
| And also we can see in the conversation the number we are learning today, |
| in this case vinte e cinco, twenty-five. |
| So let's see the pattern for this lesson. |
| Custa [number] real or reais. |
| It costs [number] real or reais. |
| Okay, so let's see how we can make numbers in Portuguese. |
| So first is tens with ones. |
| We use the word e. |
| Tens e ones. |
| For example, thirty-three is trinta e três. |
| We have hundreds; that's [hundreds] e [tens] e [ones]. |
| For example, 129, that's cento e vinte e nove. |
| Here you can see cento, right? From here, |
| we have cem and cento. |
| Cem is when you say it by itself, |
| cem reais, one hundred reais. |
| And cento e vinte e nove, one hundred twenty-nine. |
| And the last ones are [thousands] [hundreds] e [tens] e [ones]. |
| So you don't need e between thousands and hundreds in Portuguese. |
| For example, 9571, that's nove mil quinhentos e setenta e um. |
| In Brazil, the currency is called real. |
| It was created in 1994, or mil novecentos e noventa e quatro. |
| Currently, one American dollar is about five reais. |
| For example, custa um real, it costs one real, |
| or custa duzentos reais, it costs two hundred reais. |
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