Tonada

Portuguese word

ser

Brazil/ˈse(ʁ)/Brazil[ˈse(h)]/ˈse(ɾ)//ˈse(ʁ)/[ˈse(χ)]/ˈse(ɻ)/Portugal/ˈseɾ/Portugal/ˈse.ɾi/
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Part of speech
verb
Level
A1
Frequency
No. 23 in the course corpus
Taught in
Brazil, Portugal

Meanings

  1. to be (what someone is)
  2. to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality
  3. to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)
  4. to be; forms the passive voice
  5. to be; indicates a point in time
  6. be

Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)

Conjugation of ser →

Sources and licences

  • Tonada course content (words, example sentences and their translations).
  • Wiktionary contributors, via kaikki.org (wiktextract) — CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL

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