Disclaimer: Like many websites, Portugalist earns money via adverts and Portuguese Slang, Insults, & Swear Words (You Probably Don’t Need to Know)Reviews: Italki – Find Portuguese Teachers Online & Practice Over SkypeReviews: Linguno – A Very Comprehensive Language Learning AppThe A2 Language Requirement for Portuguese Citizenship The everyday lingo is inundated with popular Brazilian slang words and phrases.
Slang is just one of the many facets of Brazilian Portuguese that you’ll need to learn in order to achieve true fluency. The 16 terms in this post will get you started! I’m from Brazil and I’m part of the MosaLingua Team. Radio Television Portugal.What about Sacana – bastard!! It generally means “cool”, but sometimes it is also used as “nice”. It’s commonly used with the word fixe.Pá is a commonly used slang word. i think it meant to go warm your ass up by sitting over there. Literally: “Legal” There are seemingly infinite ways to say “cool” or “great” in Brazilian Portuguese, and they differ However, kids and teens would use it too, but more along the lines of the equivalent to cock or dick.Thanks for sharing! I read that a lot in subtitles on rtp, as a translations of fuck/fucking.Hi dona…sorry I want to know what is you write “rtp”RTP is a TV network in Portugal. One of the strongest Luso insults!for most Portuguese people that isn’t even a swear word, at least where I live it isn’tI am of Azorean heritage. In my other post How to say ‘hello’ in Brazilian Portuguese, we saw that oi is the most common way of saying ‘hello’ and that most Brazilians will almost always ask the question Tudo bem? The tile “Bacama” should be corrected, the word is “Bacana” with “n”.hi I speak Portuguese and I have never heard anyone talking “cucumber” or “pineapple” as giriaReally? There is a similar expression, Weirdly, puto is slang for boy (and not considered offensive).Brazil famously uses the word bicha to mean queer whereas that means a queue or line in Portugal. is that right?Means to ‘sit on your tail or ass’ senta = sit and rabo (habo) + tailYou must create one lesson too how to use them with exampleOi dona in Brazil they say bicha as a rude way to say queer does it mean anything else in Portugal?I’ve seen it used in the same way in Portugal. Do not use it unless you have to.Ps. You can view some of It’s a way of calling a guy a worthless drop of sperm. Today the main countries that speak Portuguese are the mother country Portugal and Brazil , which are considerably different from each other. Another word I grew up with that I don’t see mentioned here was “pumba” which was slang for penis. To learn some authentic slang, you’ll need to find it, first.
That’s always useful LOLPlease let me know about this please It’very urgentHow about ‘porra’? I’m still not really sureHaving an argument over the Portuguese word pumba, for a lack of better words dose it mean dick or ass?I know “pumba” as “bang”, “nail it” like “…and pumba, you did” or like “pumba, take that”Pumba is dick in Portuguese slang especially in the Azores. In Brazil, they use the word fila.Táss cuul, no one uses that in Portugal and you don’t write it like that.Pissa or pisso, meaning cock is also not written like that.My mum is from Madeira and I hear her use ‘caramba’ a lot, I don’t even know if I’ve spelt it right, but I’ve looked it up online and it means damn. Hi, Lize here. I grew up thinking “porra” meant “damn” too, until a Portuguese person I worked with got very insulted when I used the word, and later told me it meant “cum”. It’s easy to remember because it sounds like pal, which in some English-speaking countries is added onto the end of a sentence.Gajo and tipo are two commonly used words which mean guy (or dude if you’re American).Foder meaning “to fuck” is a word that you’ll often hear in Portugal, usually when someone is telling you to go fuck yourself.Porra is another word meaning fuck and one that comes up often.There are a lot of different words for dick in Portuguese. Share them in the comments section.
Here are just a few:Similarly, there are several slang words for pussy in Portuguese.As to whether anyone actually says this, that depends on who you ask. Probably not, but you will come across quite a few of these words as you learn Portuguese.Pronounced as feesh (almost sounding like fish), fixe means cool or nice and it’s a word you’ll commonly hear in European Portuguese (Brazilians use the word “legal” instead).Giro (masculine) or gira (feminine) means pretty or cute. Don’t forget to tell us what they mean and how they are used.If this article was useful to you, don’t forget to rate it, share it with your friends, and Vocabulary flashcards, videos with subtitles, audiobooks, articles adapted to your level – with MosaLingua Web, you’ll have access to all this and more! Today, you will learn 13 Portuguese slang words that you should know if you want to speak like a Brazilian!Check out my video below or on our YouTube channel to get started.