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Portuguese (Portugal)

### Knowing When to Leave

When a late-night event gets tiring and you are fed up, you might decide it is time to leave. In Portuguese, the most common way to say "to go away" or "to leave" is the highly frequent verb **ir-se embora**.

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This is a pronominal verb, meaning it requires a reflexive pronoun. To use it, conjugate the verb **ir** (to go), attach a pronoun that matches the subject using a hyphen, and add the word **embora**:

- (Eu) **vou-me embora**
- (Tu) **vais-te embora**
- (Ele/ela/você) **vai-se embora**
- (Eles/elas/vocês) **vão-se embora**

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### Sneaking Out

If the party is exhausting and you are starting to yawn, you might want to grab your coat and slip out discreetly while everyone else is distracted.

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### Questions, Commands, and Infinitives

You can use these same conjugated forms to ask if a friend is heading out, or as an imperative to tell someone to leave.

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Finally, when "going away" acts as a secondary verb in a sentence, it remains in its infinitive form. The pronoun still needs to match the person who is leaving, even when attached to the infinitive (for example, **ir-me embora** or **ir-se embora**).

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Going away (ir-se embora)

adjective

adverb

conjunction

contraction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

phrase

prefix

prep

preposition

pron

pronoun

sentence

verb

Demonstratives and the verb to be (isto é, o, a)

Subject pronouns and negation (eu, não)

Yes/no questions and question words (quem, o que)

Plural pronouns, articles, and verbs (somos, são, os, as)

Origin and possession (de, do, da)

Introductions (chamar-se)

Indefinite articles (um, uma, uns, umas)

The verb to be for locations (estar)

Contrasting the two verbs to be (ser vs. estar)

Preposition for locations (em, no, na)

Numbers 0 to 10 (zero, um, dois)

The verb to have (tenho, tem)

Regular -ar verbs (falar, trabalhar)

Regular -er verbs (comer, beber)

Regular -ir verbs (abrir, partir)

My, your, and our (o meu, a nossa)

His, hers, and theirs (dele, dela)

Adjective agreement and placement

Days of the week (segunda-feira)

Months of the year (janeiro)

Counting by tens to 100 (trinta, quarenta...)

Telling time (é uma, são...)

Asking about time (quando, a que horas)

The verb to go (ir)

Prepositions of direction (a, para)

Preposition a contractions (ao, à, aos, às)

Prepositions of place (ao lado de, em frente de...)

Demonstratives (este, esse, aquele)

Contractions with demonstratives (neste, desse, daquele)

Asking which and how many (qual, quanto)

Plurals ending in -ão (-ões, -ãos, -ães)

Plurals ending in consonants (-ns, -is, -es)

The verb to like (gostar de)

The verb to need (precisar de)

The verb to want (querer)

The verb can or may (poder)

Expressing obligation (ter de)

Adverbs of degree (muito, pouco)

Quantifiers (muito, pouco)

Comparatives (mais... do que, menos... do que)

Equality comparisons (tão... como)

The preposition com (comigo, contigo)

Coordinating conjunctions (e, mas, ou, porque)

The preposition por (pelo, pela)

Double negation (nunca, nada, ninguém)

Present continuous (estar a)

Near future (ir)

Past tense of regular -ar verbs

Past tense of regular -er and -ir verbs

Past tense of ser and ir (fui, foi)

Direct object pronouns (me, te, o, a, nos, os, as)

Pronoun placement with negatives and questions

Greetings and courtesy (bom dia, obrigado)

Physical states with ter (ter fome, ter frio)

Asking the way (à direita, sempre em frente)

Colours (vermelho, amarelo, cor-de-rosa)

Money and shopping (custar, a moeda)

Getting around (o motorista, a paragem de autocarro)

Weather and seasons (faz calor, o inverno)

Omitting the subject pronoun

Where things are: ficar (Onde fica...?)

Richer questions: que + noun and é que

Numbers above 100 (cento e vinte, mil)

First-person sound changes (durmo, prefiro)

Advice and ability: dever and saber

Asking why: porquê and porque

When one thing happens: quando-clauses

Here and there: aqui, aí, ali (cá e lá)

Formal and plural possessives: o seu, o vosso

Irregular presents: ver, vir, dar

Present irregulars

Reflexive verbs (me, te, se, nos)

Stem-changing reflexives

Attached object pronouns (-lo, -la, -los, -las)

Nasal attached pronouns (-no, -na, -nos, -nas)

Pronoun placement with adverbs

Past tense of fazer, dizer, and trazer

Past tense of ter, estar, poder, and saber

Past tense of querer and vir

Past tense of ver, dar, and ler

Past tense reflexive verbs (-se)

Time elapsed in the past (há)

Question	Answer
fed up	farto
the nightclub	a discoteca
to go away	ir-se embora
Since I am fed up with the nightclub, I am going away.	Como estou farto da discoteca, vou-me embora.
the early morning	a madrugada
exhausting	exaustivo
to yawn	bocejar
It is early morning. The party is exhausting and I am yawning.	É madrugada. A festa é exaustiva e estou a bocejar.
the host	o anfitrião
discreetly	discretamente
The host is going away discreetly.	O anfitrião vai-se embora discretamente.
silent	silencioso
to grab	agarrar
The house is silent. I grab the coat and go away.	A casa está silenciosa. Agarro o casaco e vou-me embora.
Even though the nightclub is lively, they are fed up and are going away.	Apesar de a discoteca estar animada, eles estão fartos e vão-se embora.
So that the host does not see him, he grabs the bag discreetly.	Para que o anfitrião não o veja, ele agarra a mala discretamente.
It is already early morning and the garden is silent. Are you going away?	Já é madrugada e o jardim está silencioso. Vais-te embora?
The work is exhausting, so the gentleman needs to rest a little.	O trabalho é exaustivo, por isso o senhor precisa de descansar um bocado.
Go away from here!	Vai-te embora daqui!
She usually goes away in the early morning.	Ela costuma ir-se embora de madrugada.
I am fed up and I am yawning. I am leaving.	Estou farto e estou a bocejar. Vou-me embora.