Buy in Portuguese

Hello, friends! How are you today? Today we’ll learn another important verb, but first answer these little questions: Do you like to go shopping? What are your favorite things to buy? Can you say it in Portuguese? If you don’t know, don’t worry my friend. We are here for you! In this Dica we’ll learn the verb to buy in Portuguese, then you can tell us which things are on your shipping list. At the end of our Dica, we’ll practice with an exercise!

The verb to buy in Portuguese

Let’s imagine you are here in Brazil having a nice afternoon on a RioLIVE! Activity and you see a pretty backpack in a store. How do you say that you want to buy it in Portuguese?

The verb that means to buy in Portuguese is Comprar. We will now learn how to talk about shopping for groceries, clothes, souvenirs, etc. Let’s see the verb comprar conjugation before we go out shopping so we can speak to natives!

Comprar is a regular verb with the termination -AR. See below the conjugation of buy in Portuguese with all it’s endings highlighted in bold.

Indicative

Imperative

Subjunctive

Other tenses

So friends, feel like buying something right now? Try to answer that using the conjugation of buy in Portuguese and practice what you’ve just learned.  But to practice even further, we have an exercise for you. Check it out:

Exercise the verb to buy in Portuguese 

We hope you are excited to do this exercise! So, it goes like this: we are giving you some sentences with the Portuguese verb comprar and you have to tell us, by looking at the conjugation of the verb, who is the subject doing the action. Easy peasy.

Example using buy in Portuguese

Comprei uma blusa ontem. The person or subject to this sentence is: I. So the answer would be: eu. Ready? Let’s go.

1. Ontem, compraram 3 cervejas.
2. Ano que vem, comprarei uma casa finalmente.
3. Quando receber o dinheiro, vão comprar roupas novas.
4. Maíra comprou mais 1 mês de aulas, OBA!
5. Nós queremos que Sam compre a passagem logo.
6. Se ganharmos uma promoção, compraremos um carro.
7. Se vocês forem ao Brasil, comprem cachaça.
8. Meu computador quebrou, então comprarei um novo.
9. Erick está comprando um sorvete, vamos esperar.
10. Paula vai comprar as aulas para o CELPE-Bras.

Are you ready to buy a course here at Rio&Learn and stay in Brazil with a student visa for 6 months? I bet you’ll love it here and want to stay more that that. In Brazil we have so many amazing things to see (and buy!) 😛

Go to our Twitter and tell us what you would like to buy in Brazil, in Portuguese, of course.

We’ll see you around!
Bye!

          
Click on the links below to see more related Dicas
Shopping Phrases in Portuguese
Dialogue in Portuguese at a Clothing Store
Types of payments in Portuguese
Cash or installment purchases in Portuguese

Exercise with the Portuguese verb comprar: answers

1. Ontem, compraram 3 cervejas. – Eles/elas ou Vocês
2. Ano que vem, comprarei uma casa finalmente. – Eu
3. Quando receber o dinheiro, vão comprar roupas novas. – Eles/elas ou Vocês
4. Maíra comprou mais 1 mês de aulas, OBA! – Maíra = Ela
5. Nós queremos que Sam compre a passagem logo. – Sam = Ele
6. Se ganharmos uma promoção, compraremos um carro. – Nós
7. Se vocês forem ao Brasil, comprem cachaça. – Vocês
8. Meu computador quebrou, então comprarei um novo. – Eu
9. Erick está comprando um sorvete, vamos esperar. – Erick = Ele
10. Paula vai comprar as aulas para o CELPE-Bras. – Paula = Ela