How this lesson works
Denser than the last ones — your results say you can take it. Tap or hover over any green Portuguese word for a translation (wait one second).
Today you will learn to say:
"No sábado vou viajar. Vamos comer juntos às sete? Depois eu não vou trabalhar!"
"On Saturday I'm going to travel. Shall we eat together at seven? Afterwards I'm not going to work!"
📐 Grammar in this lesson
| The future with IR + infinitive | vou falar, vamos comer — how Brazilians actually talk about the future |
| Vamos + verb | "let's…" — Vamos estudar! |
| Numbers 0–100 | counting, combining (vinte e um), gender of um/uma and dois/duas |
| Telling time | Que horas são? · São duas horas · É uma hora · e meia · às nove |
| Days of the week | segunda-feira → domingo · na segunda, no sábado |
The 8 steps (±40 min)
| 1 | Review — 6 questions, including the 3 you missed in Lessons 2–3 | 2 min |
| 2 | Words — 31 new: numbers, days, time & planning words | 6 min |
| 3 | Grammar — the future, numbers, clock time, days | 7 min |
| 4 | Cards — flashcards, multiple choice, typing | 9 min |
| 5 | Dialogue — making weekend plans | 3 min |
| 6 | Summary — the cheat-sheet | 1 min |
| 7 | Test — 30 questions in 3 categories: verbs · grammar · words | 8 min |
| 8 | Results — your scores, saved automatically | 1 min |
Step 1 · Warm-up — including your personal weak spots
The first three questions are the exact items you missed in Lessons 2 and 3. Let's close those gaps.
Step 2 · 63 new words
Numbers, days, and the time-and-planning toolkit. Tap or hover any word for the translation; click and repeat out loud.
Numbers 🔢
Days of the week 📅
Time & planning ⏰
Story words 📖 — every one of these turns up in this lição’s história
Don’t drill these like the lists above. Read them once, then meet them again in the story — that second meeting is what makes them stick.
Step 3 · Time machines
The future, numbers, the clock, and the week — the grammar of making plans.
1 · The future with IR — now in full
Lição 3 gave you a taste; today it becomes your main tense. Conjugated ir + infinitive covers every future plan: vou viajar (I am going to travel), vão jantar (they are going to dine). Note the elegant weirdness of vou ir ("I am going to go") — Brazilians usually just say vou.
| Amanhã eu vou viajar para o Rio. | time word + vou + verb |
| Você vai estudar hoje à noite? | question — same order |
| Eles não vão trabalhar no domingo. | não before vai/vão |
2 · Vamos + verb — "let's!"
Vamos + infinitive does double duty: "we are going to…" AND "let's…!". Context and tone decide. It is the most inviting word in Brazilian Portuguese.
| Vamos comer uma pizza! | invitation |
| Vamos ao mercado amanhã. | plain plan |
| Vamos? — Vamos! | the two-word conversation |
3 · Numbers 0–100 — the system behind them
Learn 0–15 by heart, then the system takes over: tens (vinte, trinta, quarenta…) join units with e (and): 21 = vinte e um, 45 = quarenta e cinco. Two numbers have gender: 1 (um/uma) and 2 (dois/duas) — two friends (fem.) = duas amigas.
| vinte e um · trinta e três · noventa e nove | tens + e + units |
| Eu tenho trinta e dois anos. | age uses TER |
| dois cafés · duas cervejas | dois/duas agree |
4 · Telling time — que horas são?
Ask: Que horas são? Answer with são + number: São três horas (it is 3). Exception: 1 o'clock is singular — É uma hora. Half past = e meia. Saying "AT a time" uses às: às nove = at nine.
| São duas e meia. | são + hour + e meia |
| É uma hora. | 1:00 → é, not são |
| O filme começa às oito da noite. | às = at · da manhã/da tarde/da noite |
5 · Days of the week — and "on Monday"
Monday–Friday are numbered "fairs": segunda, terça, quarta, quinta, sexta(-feira); weekend keeps names: sábado, domingo. "ON a day" = na (fem. weekdays) / no (sábado, domingo) — your Lição 2 contractions working overtime. Plural = every: aos sábados = on Saturdays.
| Na segunda eu trabalho. | na + weekday |
| No sábado vamos à praia. | no + sábado/domingo |
| O fim de semana é sagrado! | o fim de semana = the weekend |
6 · à, às — the tiny word that means "at"
"AT nine" = às nove — that little backwards accent (à) is a + a(s) squeezed together. You will use it every single day, so get the pattern now:
| Trabalho às nove horas. | às + plural hours |
| Almoço à uma hora. | à (singular) with UMA hora |
| de manhã · à tarde · à noite | morning takes DE, the others take À |
| ao meio-dia | a + o = ao (meio-dia is masculine) |
7 · The classic slips of Lesson 4
| ❌ São uma hora | ✅ É uma hora — one o'clock is singular; from two on, use são |
| ❌ em sábado | ✅ no sábado — "on Saturday"; weekdays: na segunda(-feira) |
| ❌ Eu vou trabalhar. (meaning "I work every day") | ✅ Eu trabalho todo dia — ir + verb is only for the FUTURE |
| ❌ vinte e dez | ✅ trinta — after twenty, build with e only inside the ten: vinte e um, vinte e dois… |
Step 4 · Cards — the repetition engine
Three rounds. Cards you miss come back until you get them.
Round 1 · Flashcards
Step 5 · Weekend plans
Two friends planning their Saturday. Listen first WITHOUT translations — hover a line if you're stuck.
Did you understand?
🎤 Fala você! — now YOU speak
The step that turns knowledge into conversation. Answer each prompt out loud, in a full sentence — imperfect is fine, silent is not. Then open the model answer, compare, and say the model out loud too.
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Amanhã eu vou trabalhar e depois vou jantar com amigos.
Tomorrow I'm going to work and then have dinner with friends.
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A festa vai ser às oito horas.
The party is going to be at eight o'clock.
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Nós vamos viajar na próxima semana.
We are going to travel next week.
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O que você vai comer?
What are you going to eat?
Step 6 · Resumo — Lesson 4 on one page
Your cheat-sheet. (Ctrl+P saves it as PDF.)
📐 New grammar
| Future | ir + infinitive: vou falar, vai comer, vamos trabalhar, vão estudar · negation: não vou… |
| Vamos + verb | = "let's…": Vamos estudar! |
| Numbers | 0–10 memorized · 11–19 · tens · combine with e (vinte e um) · um/uma & dois/duas agree in gender |
| Time | Que horas são? · São duas horas · É uma hora · e meia · às nove · nove da manhã |
| Days | segunda–sexta feminine (na segunda) · sábado/domingo masculine (no sábado) |
🔧 New verbs (1) + the future pattern
| Verb | eu | você/ele/ela | nós | eles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| viajar (travel) | viajo | viaja | viajamos | viajam |
| ir + infinitive (future) | vou falar | vai falar | vamos falar | vão falar |
💬 New words (31)
Step 7 · Final test — 30 questions in 3 categories
Verbs, grammar, and words — scored separately so we know exactly where to drill next.
Step 8 · Your results
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