Today we’re adding 9 new Brazilian Portuguese expressions 🎉🇧🇷!

And there’s a fun story behind how we found them.

These expressions came from searches made by Speak Like A Brazilian users that didn’t return any results. When we see people looking for a word or expression that isn’t in our dictionary yet, it’s a great clue that we’re missing something useful.

You can read more about how we use these searches to discover new expressions in this blog post

New expressions

Click on any of these expressions to find out what they mean and how they’re used:

Many of these expressions have variations, synonyms, and specific contexts where they’re more commonly used. Some are informal, some can vary depending on the speaker, and others have meanings that aren’t obvious from the individual words.

That’s exactly what makes learning real Brazilian Portuguese so interesting! 🇧🇷

Keep searching — you might even help us discover the next expression we add.