The Portuguese Language Has Ten “Parts of Speech.”

First Published: 26th of March, 2021 by Patrick Carpen.

In the English language, we classify all the words and expressions into eight groupings based on they role they play in a sentence. For example, if a word names something, it is called a “noun,” if a word describes action, it is called a verb, and if a word modifies a noun, it is called an “adjective.”

In the English language, the groupings of words based on its function or role is called, “Parts of Speech.” In the English Language, words are grouped into eight Parts of Speech: noun, verb, pronoun, adverb, adjective, interjection, preposition, and conjunction. However, in the Portuguese language, there are ten “Parts of Speech.”

In the Portuguese Language, there are ten Parts of Speech. However, we do not call these Parts of Speech in Portuguese, we refer to them as “classes de palavras,” which, literally translated, means, “classes of words.”

The ten Classes de Palavras in the Portuguese language are:

Substantivo – Noun

Adjectivo – Adjective

Verbo – Verb

Pronome – Pronoun

Numeral – (no English Equivalent)

Artigo – (no English Equivalent)

Adverbio – Adverb

Preposicao – Preposition

Conjuncao – Conjunction

Interjeicao – Interjection

We will tell you more about the “classes de palavras” and their significance in another article.