B2 UPPER-INTERMEDIATE · LESSON 4 OF 10 · LIÇÃO 34 · ±45 MIN

☕ Lição 34 — Um cafezinho?

The diminutive is the beating heart of spoken Brazilian — and it is almost never about size. Cafezinho, minutinho, probleminha, cedinho, gracinha. Today you learn to build them, and to hear what they are really saying.

What Lição 34 teaches

Diminutivos e aumentativos — cafezinho, rapidinho, carrão. Almost never about size: affection, politeness, sarcasm and intensity.

Like every Rumo lesson it runs in eight steps — review of the previous lesson, new words with audio, the grammar properly explained, flashcards and typing drills, a dialogue with comprehension questions, a one-page summary, a test you pass at 70%, and your results. About 40 minutes.

Grammar in this lesson

Read the story for this lesson first — it is free: Mais um pedacinho (~level B2, sentence-by-sentence translation and audio).

After level B2 you can…

talk about the past that didn\'t happen — regrets, should-haves, near-misses · survive Brazilian bureaucracy and read every official sign · switch between street slang and formal writing · argue a full opinion with structure and irony. In practice: you live in Brazil — renting, banking, joking, belonging — with Portuguese that surprises even the locals.

Level B2 is 10 lessons plus the Revisão B2 exam. This is lesson 4 of 10. The other lessons: Se eu tivesse sabido… · Para a gente se entender · À beira-mar · Depende de quê? · Prezado senhor · Tá ligado? · Em primeiro lugar · Sei… · Viver em português.

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