Food & Diet

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European Portuguese term (Brazilian Portuguese uses 'café da manhã').

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Takes the contraction 'ao' when referring to meal times.

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Can also function as a verb meaning 'to have dinner'.

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European Portuguese term (Brazilian Portuguese uses 'cardápio').

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Used in restaurants to request the total amount to pay.

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Literally means 'employee', but widely used for waiters in Portugal.

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Essential local spot for coffee and sweets in Portugal.

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Used for open-air or municipal food markets.

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Combines with 'a' to form 'ao' (ir ao supermercado).

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In PT-PT, 'legumes' generally refers to vegetables, unlike 'vegetais'.

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Often used as a general mass noun for fruit.

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Feminine noun ending in -e.

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Portugal has a very strong culture of eating fish.

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Irregular plural: -ão changes to -ães.

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Portugal produces many famous regional cheeses.

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Feminine noun for dairy fat.

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Note the pronunciation change in the plural ('os óvos').

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Irregular plural: -ar changes to -ares.

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Irregular plural: -al changes to -ais.

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Takes masculine article 'o' in singular for phonetics if combined, but standard is 'a água'.

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European Portuguese term (Brazilian Portuguese uses 'suco').

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Also refers to the cafe establishment itself.

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Regular -ar verb.

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Used with the verb 'ter' (to have hunger = to be hungry).

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Used with the verb 'ter' (to have thirst = to be thirsty).