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Quiz about European Portuguese
Quiz about European Portuguese

European Portuguese Trivia Quiz

This quiz contains various phrases or words in European (*not* Brazilian) Portuguese.

A multiple-choice quiz by Lostio. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Lostio
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
102,303
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
25
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
19 / 25
Plays
1623
Last 3 plays: Richard27 (23/25), Guest 80 (23/25), Guest 195 (22/25).
This quiz has 2 formats: you can play it as a or as shown below.
Scroll down to the bottom for the answer key.
1. What is the Portuguese word for "sky-scraper"? Hint

gato
locomotiva
mala
arranha-céus

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2. How do you say "snail" in Portuguese?

Answer: (Starts with a 'C', singular)

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3. What's the Portuguese word for an animal? Hint

peixe
doméstico/a
animal
amor

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4. 'Burro' can mean two things in Portuguese: Hint

an intruding sentence and an animal
a playing object and an insult
an object and a question
an animal and an insult

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5. Which one of the following is grammatically correct? Hint

filme giro
grande dragões
bom ameixa
gordos pessoas

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6. What's a card in Portuguese? Hint

jogo
lar
carta
casa

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7. How do you say television in Portuguese? Hint

televisão
television
televisione
telewizja

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8. What's the Portuguese word for a closet? Hint

fechado
armário
gato
correr

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9. Which one of the following is a verb? Hint

óculos
andar
lindo
as

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10. Is 'nojento' a Portuguese word?

Yes
No

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11. 'Alto' can mean two things in Portuguese: Hint

game and ring
high and game
tall and high
bell and ring

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12. What's a louse in Portuguese?

Answer: (Starts with a 'P')

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13. How do you say a castle in Portuguese? Hint

amarelo
masmorra
dragão
castelo

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14. What's the Portuguese word for a tooth? Hint

marfim
cantor
brilhante
dente

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15. How do you read 483 in Portuguese? Hint

oitocentos e quarenta e três
quatrocem oitenta três
quatrocentos e oitenta e três
centenasquatro oitenta três

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16. If you want to apologise in Portuguese, what do you need to say? Hint

desculpe
se faz favor
obrigado/a
com prazer

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17. What do you say if you want to add 'please' (at the end of a sentence)? Hint

obrigado/a
se faz favor
com prazer
desculpe

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18. How would you translate Portuguese expression 'with pleasure'? Hint

com prazer
desculpe
obrigado/a
se faz favor

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19. If you want to thank someone, what do you say? Hint

se faz favor
desculpe
com prazer
obrigado/a

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20. What's Portuguese word for a key? Hint

porta
chave
fechadura
mesa

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21. How do you say 'good' or 'well'?

Answer: (Starts with a 'B')

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22. What about 'bad' or 'badly'?

Answer: (Starts with a 'M')

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23. How do you say 'to fill in' in Portuguese? Hint

compreender
preencher
colocar
dizer

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24. What's the Portuguese word for 'a question'? Hint

pergunta
muleta
resposta
quadro

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25. What is the Portuguese equivalent of 'a pie'? Hint

tarte
mente
maçã
memória


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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the Portuguese word for "sky-scraper"?

Answer: arranha-céus

 "Arranha" is a scraper, "céus" means "skies". "Gato" is a cat, "mala" is a suitcase and "locomotiva" is a locomotive.
2. How do you say "snail" in Portuguese?

Answer: caracol

 Yep, it's 'caracol'. It can be both feminine or masculine.
3. What's the Portuguese word for an animal?

Answer: animal

 Doméstico/a is an adjective and means domestic. Amor means love and peixe is fish.
4. 'Burro' can mean two things in Portuguese:

Answer: an animal and an insult

 Burro actually means a donkey. But Portuguese people sometimes call each other 'burro/a' as an insult. Try to say it to a Portuguese person!
5. Which one of the following is grammatically correct?

Answer: filme giro

 It's the only one of the above examples where both adjective and noun have the same gender and number (masculine and singular). Filme is movie and giro is nice.
6. What's a card in Portuguese?

Answer: carta

 Lar is Portuguese for home, casa is house and jogo means game.
Carta may also mean a letter.
7. How do you say television in Portuguese?

Answer: televisão

 Televisione is Italian, television is Spanish and telewizja is Polish. They look similar, don't they?
8. What's the Portuguese word for a closet?

Answer: armário

 Fechado is an adjective and means closed, gato is a cat and correr is a verb and means to run.
9. Which one of the following is a verb?

Answer: andar

 Portuguese verbs end with 'ar', 'er', or 'ir'. Andar means to go, to walk.
10. Is 'nojento' a Portuguese word?

Answer: Yes

It is an adjective and means 'disgusting'.
11. 'Alto' can mean two things in Portuguese:

Answer: tall and high

 'Alto' is derived from the ancient Latin adjective 'altus'.
12. What's a louse in Portuguese?

Answer: piolho

It's hard, isn't it? It is really 'piolho'.
13. How do you say a castle in Portuguese?

Answer: castelo

 Amarelo is yellow, dragão means a dragon, and masmorra is a dungeon.
14. What's the Portuguese word for a tooth?

Answer: dente

 Marfim is ivory, brilhante means brilliant and cantor is a singer.
15. How do you read 483 in Portuguese?

Answer: quatrocentos e oitenta e três

 Four hundred = quatrocentos, and = e, eighty = oitenta, three = três.
16. If you want to apologise in Portuguese, what do you need to say?

Answer: desculpe

 It could also be 'desculpa' (informal way of saying it).
17. What do you say if you want to add 'please' (at the end of a sentence)?

Answer: se faz favor

 It may also be 'por favor'.
18. How would you translate Portuguese expression 'with pleasure'?

Answer: com prazer

 Prazer is pleasure, com means with.
19. If you want to thank someone, what do you say?

Answer: obrigado/a

 You say 'obrigado' if you are a man and 'obrigada' if you are a woman.
20. What's Portuguese word for a key?

Answer: chave

 Porta is a door, fechadura means a lock and mesa is a table.
21. How do you say 'good' or 'well'?

Answer: Bom

"Muito bem" means "very well".
22. What about 'bad' or 'badly'?

Answer: Mau

Mau is bad and mal means badly.
23. How do you say 'to fill in' in Portuguese?

Answer: preencher

 Compreender = to understand, colocar = to put, dizer = to say or to tell.
24. What's the Portuguese word for 'a question'?

Answer: pergunta

 Resposta = an answer, muleta = a crutch, quadro = painting.
25. What is the Portuguese equivalent of 'a pie'?

Answer: tarte

 Maçã = an apple, mente = mind and memória = memory.
Source: Author Lostio

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