Differences
Between Brazilian Portuguese – particularly in its most informal varieties – and European Portuguese, there can be considerable differences in grammar, as well. The most prominent ones concern the placement of clitic pronouns, and the use of subject pronouns as objects in the third person. Non-standard inflections are also common in colloquial Brazilian Portuguese.
Within the two major varieties of Portuguese, most differences between dialects concern pronunciation and vocabulary. Below are some examples:
- words for bus
- Angola & Mozambique: machimbombo
- Brazil: ônibus
- Portugal: autocarro
- slang terms for to go away
- Angola: bazar - from Kimbundu kubaza - to break, leave with rush
- Brazil: vazar - from Portuguese "to leak", Latin vacivu
- Portugal: vou embora
- words for slum quarter
- Angola: musseque
- Brazil: favela
- Portugal: bairro de lata or ilha
Read more about this topic: Portuguese Dialects
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