Dirty Portuguese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

By Alice Rose, Nati Vale and Pedro A Cabral

Learn cool slang, funny insults and all the words they didn’t teach you in class with this comprehensive guide to dirty Portuguese.

You’ve taken Portuguese lessons and learned all kinds of useful phrases. You know how to order dinner, get directions, and ask for the bathroom. But what happens when it’s time to drop the textbook formality? To really know a language, you need to know its bad words, too. You need Dirty Portuguese.

From common slang and insulting curses to explicit sexual expressions, this volume teaches the kind of Portuguese heard every day on the streets of Brazil. Learn to sound like a native speaker with phrases like:

What’s up? — Tudo bem?

Are those fake boobs? — Você tem silicone no peito?

I need to take a piss. — Preciso mijar.

That goalie is so weak. — Esse goleiro é uma mãe.

Shit’s about to go down! — O coro vai comer!

I’m smashed. — Tô bebum.

Let’s fuck like animals. — Vamos trepar como animais.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Sep 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781569758809

Alice Rose

Alice Rose is an editor and writer who has studied and lived in Bahia. She has been practicing capoeira for 14 years and assists her husband and coauthor, Jadson Caçador, teach the martial art in Oakland, California. Alice also practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu, loves to cook, and occasionally teaches kids about the wonders of paleontology.

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CHAPTER 1

HOWDY POR TUGUESE

PORTUGUÊS CUMPRIMENTANDO

Like every other language, Portuguese has a shitload of ways to meet and greet. Asking your boss for a raise or the immigration officer to rubberstamp your passport? Keep it formal. Meeting up with your buds for a night of endless drinking or tossing a moeda(coin) to the neighborhood bum? No need for fancy talk.

Hello

Olá

When it comes to your mom and dad, don’t be a snotty brat and go all casual when talking to them—show some effing respect. Same goes for anyone significantly older than you or people you meet in a semiformal situation. If you’re unsure and don’t want to offend someone, there’s a phrase for that: tudo bem. Use it as a greeting and it can mean hello, how are you? or even what’s up? Use it as a response and it can mean fine or it’s all good.

Hello, Your Excellency Mr. President, how are you? Olá Excelentíssimo Senhor Presidente, tudo bem?

I’m fine.

Tudo bem.

Hey man, what’s up?

Iaí cara, tudo bem?

It’s all good.

Tudo bem.

How are you?

Como está o/a senhor/a?

Good morning.

Bom dia.

Good afternoon.

Boa tarde.

Good evening / night.

Boa noite.

OK, done sucking up? Use these phrases with your friends or someone you just met at a party.

Hi.

Oi.

Afternoon / Evening.

Boa.

How are ya?

Como vai você?

How you doing?

Como você está?

What’s good?

Diga aí.

What’s new?

Quais são as novidades?

What are you up to?

O que você manda?

What’s going on?

Qualé? | Kolé? (BA)

Short for qual é.

Whatcha up to, fool?

O que tá pegando, sacana?

What’s happening, man?

Que foi, rapaz?

Literally, What went?

What’s up, bro?

Iaí, bro? | Iaí, mano? (BA)

What’s the word?

Qualé menor?

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It’s all good

Beleza

Keep your Debbie Downer comments to yourself (or save it for your stressed-out life back home). Here, it’s all about the positivity. Relax, it’s all good, baby!

Good.

Boa.

I’m good.

Na boa.