How to Use Portuguese in a Sentence

Portuguese

noun

• She is teaching her son Portuguese.
• Medeiros has given public talks on her work in both English and Portuguese.
  — Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
• His mother, who is in Brazil, recorded the message for him in Portuguese.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2023
• Amma is a root word for 'mother' in Cherokee and 'love' in Portuguese.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
• For some older Portuguese, too, the specter of the hard right’s revival has been unsettling.
  — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• And though the lyrics are in Portuguese, their political passion comes through.
  — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 19 July 2024
• Billie has a big reaction when Stephens asks him questions in Portuguese.
  — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025
• There was a nurse who spoke fluent Portuguese who helped Brazilian travelers.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024
• The group didn’t speak Portuguese, the official language on São Tomé.
  — Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
• The lyrics were in Portuguese, but not even another language posed an obstacle to reaching the top charts.
  — Felipe Maia, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
• The 40-year-old Portuguese wears his heart on his sleeve in press conferences — sometimes to his detriment.
  — Carl Anka, New York Times, 22 May 2025
• The only caveat is the Portuguese’s propensity to receive yellow cards.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• In Portuguese, pousadas means inns, but has now come to be the name for the government’s historic buildings turned hotels.
  — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
• In addition to French, de Paula speaks English and Portuguese.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• In their caption, written originally in Portuguese, the two shared their daughter's name.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 15 May 2025
• En route to the 1955 Portuguese Grand Prix, the Jaguar transporter broke down.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2025
• Late last month, a small fire burned in Portuguese Bend after a power line fell and sparked nearby vegetation.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2024
• As Brazilians sped by, an Indigenous teenager who barely spoke Portuguese gave birth to a son.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• The narrative sequences are in Portuguese, except for one character who speaks in French.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
• While an airline employee appeared to grab her by her shirt, another passenger jumped up and yelled in Portuguese.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
• By the early 1990s, tens of millions of children watched her shows in Portuguese and Spanish.
  — Ana Ionova, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Other popular languages included French, which was big in the Northeast and a few states in the South. Portuguese was also popular in the Northeast, as well as in Utah.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• The Portuguese’s stubborn refusal to tweak his tactical approach is a major concern and could well cost him his job sooner rather than later.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• On the 11-track album, Amarante sings both in his native language Portuguese and in English.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
• The Portuguese took over a squad that was a collection of years of poor recruitment, an issue exacerbated by a club drifting off the field.
  — Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• During her first show on Friday, May 24, Swift surprised fans by speaking Portuguese.
  — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 26 May 2024
• This year the event celebrates 25 years of honoring the best of Latin music in Spanish and Portuguese.
  — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
• In spite of the fact that about 98% of its population speak Portuguese, Brazil has a huge linguistic diversity.
  — Marcelo Cajueiro, Variety, 22 Oct. 2023
• The oldest and largest, Portuguese Bend, was activated in 1956, starting the land’s slow descent to the sea.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• The homes are not far from Portuguese Bend, where the peninsula’s most dramatic landslide complex covers 240 acres.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023