Top 100 Brazilian Portuguese verbs
Explore 100 Brazilian Portuguese verbs with English translations, pronunciation transcriptions, illustrations and synthesized audio. Study them here, then practise the same set in the Mnezo trainer.
How this list is selected
These are the first 100 entries in the matching Mnezo set. The order stays aligned with the trainer; it is not an exact ranking of all Brazilian speech. We do not publish a coverage percentage for this educational selection: that requires a reproducible calculation on a specified corpus. Understanding also depends on grammar, context and listening practice.
One infinitive, dozens of forms
falo, falei, falando, and vamos falar all look like separate words, but they're one verb — falar — wearing different tenses, persons, and moods. This list counts by lemma (the infinitive form), the way a dictionary would. Learn falar once, and you're already most of the way to recognizing every shape it takes — so a 100-item list quietly unfolds into thousands of forms you'll actually meet in real speech.
- falar → eu falo (I speak), você fala (you speak), falei (I said), falando (speaking), vamos falar (let's talk)
- ir → vou (I go / I'm going to), vai (goes), fui (went)… and vou + infinitive builds the everyday future: vou tentar = “I'll try”
Don't wait to “finish” conjugation before you start on verbs — flip the order. Learn the verbs first, as words with a sound and a meaning, and when you do sit down with tense tables later, every row will already look familiar instead of like a wall of new material.
Test yourself right now
Here's a short, everyday story in Portuguese. Every highlighted word is a form of one of the 100 verbs listed below — see how many you already recognize.
Ontem eu do trabalho, o telefone na mesa e um tempo sem nada. Depois para a minha irmã — como ela Ela que de emprego: uma vaga nova e «Você — quase uma hora: da infância, no futuro, e no fim ela com você?» — «Claro que Você que eu sempre
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Show translation
Yesterday I got back from work, left my phone on the table, and just sat there for a while doing nothing. Then I called my sister — I wanted to know how she was doing. She told me she's changing jobs: she found a new position and decided to go for it. “You can do it!” I said. We talked for almost an hour: we reminisced about our childhood, thought about the future, and at the end she asked, “Can I count on you?” “Of course you can. You know I always help.”
All 100 verbs — with audio and transcription
The numbering follows the Mnezo study set. Each entry includes a translation, a stress-marked transcription, an illustration and synthesized Brazilian Portuguese audio.
- 1serto be (permanent, inherent)[ˈseʁ]
- 2estarto be (temporary state, location)[isˈtaʁ]
- 3irto go[ˈiʁ]
- 4pararto stop; to park (a car)[paˈɾaʁ]
- 5terto have[ˈteʁ]
- 6podercan, to be able to[poˈdeʁ]
- 7saberto know[saˈbeʁ]
- 8fazerto do, to make[faˈzeʁ]
- 9dizerto say, to tell, to mean[dʒiˈzeʁ]
- 10quererto want[keˈɾeʁ]
- 11acharto think, to find[aˈʃaʁ]
- 12ficarto stay, to become, to be located[fiˈkaʁ]
- 13verto see[ˈveʁ]
- 14virto come[ˈviʁ]
- 15haverto exist; there to be[aˈveʁ]
- 16deverto owe, to have to, must[deˈveʁ]
- 17falarto speak, to talk[faˈlaʁ]
- 18darto give[ˈdaʁ]
- 19esperarto wait, to wait for, to hope[ispeˈɾaʁ]
- 20precisarto need[pɾesiˈzaʁ]
- 21deixarto leave (behind), to let, to allow[dejˈʃaʁ]
- 22pensarto think[pẽˈsaʁ]
- 23sentirto feel[sẽˈtʃiʁ]
- 24parecerto seem[paɾeˈseʁ]
- 25acontecerto happen[akõteˈseʁ]
- 26sairto leave, to go out[saˈiʁ]
- 27ouvirto listen, to hear[owˈviʁ]
- 28gostarto like[gosˈtaʁ]
- 29pegarto take, to catch, to grab[peˈgaʁ]
- 30tentarto try[tẽˈtaʁ]
- 31ajudarto help[aʒuˈdaʁ]
- 32conseguirto manage to, to succeed in[kõseˈgiʁ]
- 33voltarto return, to go back[vowˈtaʁ]
- 34chegarto arrive[ʃeˈgaʁ]
- 35entenderto understand[ẽtẽˈdeʁ]
- 36passarto pass, to spend (time)[paˈsaʁ]
- 37encontrarto find[ẽkõˈtɾaʁ]
- 38conhecerto know (a person), to meet, to get to know[koɲeˈseʁ]
- 39olharto look, to watch[oˈʎaʁ]
- 40acabarto end, to finish[akaˈbaʁ]
- 41contarto tell, to count[kõˈtaʁ]
- 42começarto begin, to start[komeˈsaʁ]
- 43levarto take, to carry, to give a ride[leˈvaʁ]
- 44chamarto call, to name[ʃaˈmaʁ]
- 45acreditarto believe[akɾedʒiˈtaʁ]
- 46morrerto die[moˈʁeʁ]
- 47pedirto ask for, to request, to order[peˈdʒiʁ]
- 48usarto use[uˈzaʁ]
- 49partirto leave, to depart, to break (into parts)[paʁˈtʃiʁ]
- 50ligarto call, to turn on[liˈgaʁ]
- 51trabalharto work[tɾabaˈʎaʁ]
- 52entrarto enter, to come in[ẽˈtɾaʁ]
- 53perderto lose[peʁˈdeʁ]
- 54perguntarto ask[peʁgũˈtaʁ]
- 55cuidarto take care (of), to look after[kujˈdaʁ]
- 56lembrarto remember[lẽˈbɾaʁ]
- 57colocarto put, to place[koloˈkaʁ]
- 58tirarto take (a photo), to remove, to take off[tʃiˈɾaʁ]
- 59continuarto continue[kõtʃinuˈaʁ]
- 60tomarto take, to drink, to have[toˈmaʁ]
- 61procurarto look for, to search for[pɾokuˈɾaʁ]
- 62mudarto change, to move[muˈdaʁ]
- 63beberto drink[beˈbeʁ]
- 64esquecerto forget[iskeˈseʁ]
- 65comerto eat[koˈmeʁ]
- 66andarto walk[ɐ̃ˈdaʁ]
- 67dormirto sleep[doʁˈmiʁ]
- 68viverto live[viˈveʁ]
- 69mandarto send, to order[mɐ̃ˈdaʁ]
- 70descobrirto discover, to find out[deskoˈbɾiʁ]
- 71conversarto talk, to chat[kõveʁˈsaʁ]
- 72ganharto win, to earn, to gain[gaˈɲaʁ]
- 73formarto form[foʁˈmaʁ]
- 74mostrarto show[mosˈtɾaʁ]
- 75pagarto pay[paˈgaʁ]
- 76sentarto sit, to sit down[sẽˈtaʁ]
- 77jogarto play (a game or sport), to throw[ʒoˈgaʁ]
- 78comprarto buy[kõˈpɾaʁ]
- 79abrirto open[aˈbɾiʁ]
- 80terminarto finish[teʁmiˈnaʁ]
- 81manterto keep, to maintain[mɐ̃ˈteʁ]
- 82escolherto choose, to select[iskoˈʎeʁ]
- 83cairto fall[kaˈiʁ]
- 84seguirto follow[seˈgiʁ]
- 85receberto receive, to get[ʁeseˈbeʁ]
- 86existirto exist[ezisˈtʃiʁ]
- 87correrto run[koˈʁeʁ]
- 88funcionarto work, to function[fũsioˈnaʁ]
- 89trazerto bring[tɾaˈzeʁ]
- 90imaginarto imagine[imaʒiˈnaʁ]
- 91escreverto write[iskɾeˈveʁ]
- 92baterto beat, to whisk[baˈteʁ]
- 93brincarto play (as children do)[bɾĩˈkaʁ]
- 94confiarto trust[kõfiˈaʁ]
- 95decidirto decide[desiˈdʒiʁ]
- 96provarto try, to taste, to prove[pɾoˈvaʁ]
- 97atirarto throw[atʃiˈɾaʁ]
- 98aparecerto appear[apaɾeˈseʁ]
- 99tornarto make, to render, to turn (into)[toʁˈnaʁ]
- 100salvarto save[sawˈvaʁ]
How to learn 100 verbs without mixing them up
Verbs are more abstract than nouns — a table is easy to picture, but “to manage” or “to happen” isn't. That's exactly why a memory trick isn't the right tool here. What actually works is hearing each verb spoken naturally and seeing it doing its job inside a real sentence.
Spaced repetition. Mnezo schedules reviews from your answer history. It estimates an interval; it cannot know the exact moment you will forget. Start with a small batch and practise recall without hints. The time needed varies by learner.
Audio from day one. dizer, fazer, and trazer rhyme when you hear them but look nothing alike on the page — and in real conversation you'll hear Portuguese long before you read it. Every verb on this list comes with synthesized Brazilian Portuguese audio, so your ear learns the sound of each one before your eye ever has to sort out the spelling.
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