A brief grammar of the Portuguese language

About this eBook

Author

Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922

Title

A brief grammar of the Portuguese language with exercises and vocabularies

Original Publication

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1910.

Credits

the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PC: Language and Literatures: Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Portuguese language -- Grammar

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 79190

Release Date

July 26, 2026

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A BRIEF GRAMMAR OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES:
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.Untitled
7. 7.THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.I. SOUNDS AND ACCENTS — ALPHABET — PRONUNCIATION — Sounds of the Vowels — DIALECTICAL — ACCENT MARKS — TONE ACCENT — List of Words having the Accent on the Penult — List of Words having the Accent on the Antepenult — QUANTITY — SYLLABICATION — CAPITAL LETTERS — ORTHOGRAPHY — List of Common Syncretic Forms — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.II. ARTICLES — DEFINITE ARTICLE — Use of the Definite Article with Prepositions — INDEFINITE ARTICLE — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.III. NOUNS — INFLECTION — PLURAL FORMATION — GENDER OF NOUNS — QUALIFYING SUFFIXES — Examples — Augmentatives — Diminutives — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.IV. ADJECTIVES — PLURAL — FEMININE — COMPARISON — Table of Comparison — IRREGULAR COMPARISONS — AUGMENTATIVE AND DIMINUTIVE ADJECTIVES — SYNTAX OF NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.V. NUMERALS — 55. THE CARDINALS — THE ORDINALS — 61. THE FRACTIONS — 62. MULTIPLICATION — 63. NUMERAL SUBSTANTIVES — 64. IDIOMS — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.VI. PRONOUNS — PERSONALS — Reflexive Personal Pronouns — POSSESSIVES — DEMONSTRATIVES — DETERMINATIVES — INTERROGATIVES — RELATIVES — INDEFINITE — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.VII. VERBS — CONJUGATIONS — GENERAL TERMINATIONS OF THE REGULAR VERBS — Indicative Mood — Subjunctive Mood — Imperative Mood — Infinitive — Participles — MODEL VERBS — Indicative — Subjunctive — Imperative — Infinitive — Participles — OBSERVATIONS ON THE REGULAR VERBS — AUXILIARY VERBS — Conjugation of the Auxiliary Verbs — IRREGULAR VERBS — Reference List of the Irregular Parts of Irregular Verbs — VARIABLE PARTICIPLES OF REGULAR VERBS — FIRST CONJUGATION — 116. SECOND CONJUGATION⁠ [53] ⁠ — 117. THIRD CONJUGATION — DEFECTIVE VERBS — THE SUBJECTS OF VERBS — OBJECTS OF VERBS — SPECIAL USES OF VERBS — PERIPHRASTIC VERB PHRASES — REFLEXIVE VERBS — IMPERATIVE AND SUBJUNCTIVE — THE SUBJUNCTIVE AND THE INDICATIVE — PERSONAL INFINITIVE — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.VIII. THE INDECLINABLES — ADVERBS — NEGATION — INTERROGATION — PREPOSITIONS — CONJUNCTIONS — INTERJECTIONS — ABBREVIATIONS USED IN WRITING — SIMILARITY OF WORDS IN THE TWO LANGUAGES — FOOTNOTES:
16. 16.EXERCISES — I PRONUNCIATION OF THE VOWELS — Vowel-Compounds: Pure Diphthongs — Nasal Diphthongs — II PRONUNCIATION OF THE CONSONANTS — III ACCENTS⁠ [64] — IV SYLLABICATION — V DEFINITE ARTICLE — Vocabulary — VI INDEFINITE ARTICLE — Vocabulary ⁠ [65] — VII PLURAL OF NOUNS — Vocabulary — VIII GENDER OF NOUNS — Vocabulary—Nouns of Opposite Sex — IX RELATED AND UNRELATED NOUNS OF OPPOSITE SEX — Vocabulary — X SUFFIXES—AUGMENTATIVES — Vocabulary — XI DIMINUTIVES — Vocabulary — XII ADJECTIVES — Vocabulary — XIII COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES — Vocabulary — XIV NUMERALS — Vocabulary — XV PERSONAL PRONOUNS — Vocabulary — XVI POSSESSIVES — Vocabulary — XVII DEMONSTRATIVES — Vocabulary — XVIII INTERROGATIVES — Vocabulary — XIX RELATIVES — Vocabulary — XX INDEFINITES — Vocabulary — XXI REGULAR VERBS — Vocabulary — XXII REGULAR VERBS WITH ORTHOGRAPHIC AND PHONETIC CHANGES — Vocabulary — XXIII THE AUXILIARY VERBS — Vocabulary — XXIV IRREGULAR VERBS — Vocabulary — XXV VARIABLE PARTICIPLES — Vocabulary — XXVI DEFECTIVE VERBS; SUBJECTS OF VERBS — Vocabulary — XXVII IMPERSONAL VERBS — Vocabulary — XXVIII OBJECTS OF VERBS; SPECIAL USES — Vocabulary — XXIX PERIPHRASTIC VERB-PHRASES — Vocabulary — XXX REFLEXIVE VERBS — Vocabulary — XXXI IMPERATIVE, SUBJUNCTIVE, INDICATIVE, AND PERSONAL INFINITIVE — Vocabulary — XXXII ADVERBS — Vocabulary — XXXIII NEGATION AND INTERROGATION — Vocabulary — XXXIV PREPOSITIONS AND CONJUNCTIONS — Vocabulary — XXXV ABBREVIATIONS — Vocabulary — XXXVI SIMILARITY OF WORDS — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.XXXVII EXAMPLES OF STYLE — THE NEW TESTAMENT — XXXVIII — XXXIX — XL — XLI — XLII — XLIII — XLIV — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.VOCABULARIES — ABBREVIATIONS
19. 19.PORTUGUESE-ENGLISH VOCABULARY — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — Z — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.ENGLISH-PORTUGUESE VOCABULARY — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — Y

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