28 Portuguese words and expressions that confuse Brazilians

In Portugal, hello is here. Address is address. Pastel de Belém is only in Belém (everywhere else it’s Pastel de Nata). The question “is it for offer?” It has nothing to do with lower prices. And “park” can be a parking lot🇧🇷

With the increase in the number of Brazilians who move to Portugal year after year, it is normal that the difference in the Portuguese language spoken in the two countries becomes an increasingly curious and funny topic.

Therefore, the awesome.club talked to Brazilians who live in Lisbon to find out which expressions and words used by Portuguese people were most strange to them. The last one is hard to believe!

See the picture but don’t want to believe it? this little word styrofoamwhich seems so strange to Brazilians, means polystyrene🇧🇷

Of course, in certain regions of Brazil, such as Pará and Amazonas, this gecko is also called gecko. However, the Portuguese have a national preference for calling the reptile a gecko🇧🇷

The Portuguese have a name that even makes sense for these muscles located in the calf: twins🇧🇷 Although the pronunciation is the same, the word is written with an acute accent — twins — in European Portuguese.

Did you guess from the illustration? good is synonymous with “very”. And there is still a way to emphasize this word, adding elements like “de” or “da”. Ie, “soo high” (too high) can become “high up” (Put it out loud!).

The word spin or spin means that the person is pretty or handsome. Gisele Bündchen, in this case, is bué da gira (look at the previous expression in use).

Portuguese call men in their adolescence and youth phase guys and women of girls🇧🇷 The way they call the children may also sound very strange to Brazilians: kids or kids🇧🇷

As soon as you arrive at the counter of a store to pay for a product, it is quite common for the employee to ask: “Is it for a gift?”. The question causes immense doubt to Brazilians, who immediately think about lower prices. In truth, offer is synonymous with gift in Portugal. So, she’s asking if you’d like special packaging for the merchandise.

The Portuguese even use the word parkingbut you’re more likely to hear “park” as a reference to the place where you leave the car.

If a Portuguese asks “what is your address?”, know that he is asking for your address🇧🇷

The Portuguese call this vegetable courgettethe same word used by the French — but with totally different pronunciations.

O french bread It changes its name according to the Brazilian region, being able to be called wheat bread, baguette, salt bread… But the curious thing is that in Portugal this delicacy is also known for pto Brazil or Brazilian bread.

In Portugal, the pilot does not make the take-off of the plane, but the take-off🇧🇷 The aircraft also landsIs it over there the land🇧🇷 And the steward is called flight attendant🇧🇷

While in Brazil people like to get off the phone quickly, with a simple bye kiss, the portuguese ask excuse me to end the call and usually say various expressions such as see you later (even if you won’t meet the person anytime soon) and bye (which may seem like a bit of a dramatic farewell to Brazilians).

This expression causes a lot of confusion to Brazilians. Imagine the following situation: you agreed to have a coffee with a Portuguese on a certain date. As he gets closer to the day of the meeting, he calls and asks the following question: do we always go to the cafe?

The word ever, in these cases, works as a reinforcement. In Brazilian Portuguese it would be: Shall we really have a coffee?

In Portugal, people cool are cool🇧🇷 The word cool It works for both women and men. Everyone is cool!

When a Portuguese says he is going to meet someone, he uses the expression I will have🇧🇷 As in the phrases “I’m going to meet my girlfriend at the restaurant” or “I’m going to meet my family on the weekend”.

Although the Portuguese also speak herethey use the word here much more often than Brazilians. It is common to hear the term in situations such as the phrase “I was here home when it started to rain” or the question “are you going to stay for here on holiday?”.

The word Malta in Portugal it doesn’t just refer to the symbol of the Maltese Cross, no. Malta also means crowd or grouplike “look at the work guys”.

Brazilians are confused when they first speak with a Portuguese on the phone, as they answer the call with the question: I am? To continue the dialogue, the person on the other end of the line usually responds I am🇧🇷

If you want to go to Restroom in a public place in Portugal, don’t push yourself and ask where the bathroom nearest.

Want to have a cup of coffee in Lisbon? So know that you should order a full coffee if you want it to come with more water, or a short coffee if you prefer a more concentrated taste. already the word cup means cup — and it is very common to see Portuguese people asking for the drink to be served in a cold cup.

In Portugal, the pedestrian crossing called treadmill🇧🇷 Pedestrians themselves have another name: they are the pawns🇧🇷

You can guess from the picture, right? Stapler it’s called stapler. Consequently, the Bobby pins are staples in Portugal.

In transport, there are several different words between Brazilian and European Portuguese: scooter It is scooter🇧🇷 motorcycle it says motorcycle🇧🇷 bus called bus🇧🇷 truck It is truck and rocket It is big rocket🇧🇷

It is very common for Brazilians to call the Scotch tape in tape However, you are better off not asking in some Portuguese office “who has tape🇧🇷 The Portuguese associate this word with condoms.

The Portuguese actually have cell phones🇧🇷 They are, after all, mobile phones. Despite the initial strangeness of Brazilians, the word makes much more sense than cell🇧🇷 do you agree?

You know when your mother scolded you every time you spoke smaller🇧🇷 For that is exactly how the Portuguese speak on a daily basis (although the word smaller also exists in Portugal). Despite that, Bigger remains a wrong expression for both Brazilians and Portuguese.

Did you already know any of these expressions? Did you remember any other words that are different in European Portuguese? Tell us in the comments.