Questions

If you can ask good questions, you can keep almost any conversation going, which makes this one of the most useful sets for a beginner. It focuses on Portuguese question words and phrases, handing you the lines you need to ask who, what, where, and more.

Asking Questions in Portuguese

You will translate single question words like Quem? (Who?) and Onde? (Where?), along with full, ready-to-use phrases such as Quantos anos você tem? (How old are you?). Several entries are complete sentences you can say straight away, plus a few polite replies, so the set is a little richer than a plain word list.

Mixing question words with finished phrases means you leave with real conversation starters, not just vocabulary, which is exactly what you want when you are trying to actually talk with someone.

How the quizzes work

This is a single, focused quiz with sixteen items, and it takes about five minutes, so you can run through it whenever you like and repeat it until the questions come without pausing.

Did you know?

Here is a charming difference worth knowing. To ask someone's age, Portuguese does not ask how old they "are." Instead it uses the verb ter (to have), so Quantos anos você tem? literally means "How many years do you have?" Once you spot that, you also understand why the answer uses "have" rather than "be," which trips up a lot of English speakers at first.

Questions are also the kind of thing you want to fire off without stopping to think, so saying them out loud a few times matters more here than with most lists. The phrases are short, which makes them easy to drill until they feel automatic.

How to get started

Jump in and practice the questions aloud, since they are built to be spoken. This free Portuguese quiz is quick and interactive, a friendly way to start asking your way through real conversations.