Colors & Appearance in Portuguese

This lesson will teach you to describe the colors and appearance of people and things in Portuguese. Learn to express whether something is big or small, red or green, beautiful of ugly.

Contents

Colors
Appearance & attributes
Questions & phrases
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This lesson is part of the chapter “Learning Portuguese“.

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Colors

	English	Portuguese	Pronunciation (Audio)
	light / clear	luz claro
	dark	escuro
	color	cor
	colored	colorido
	white	branco
	black	preto
	yellow	amarelo
	orange	laranja
	red	vermelho
	pink	rosa
	violet	violeta
	blue	azul
	green	verde
	brown	castanho
	grey	cinzento

Appearance & attributes

	English	Portuguese	Pronunciation (Audio)
	new	novo
	old	velho
	small	pequeno
	large / big	grande
	young	jovem
	kind / pleasant	simpático agradável
	unkind / unpleasant	indelicado desagradável
	patient	paciente
	tall (When talking about people)	alto
	middle sized (When talking about people)	médio porte
	small (When talking about people)	pequeno
	fat	gordo
	thin / slim	fino magro
	nice / pretty	simpático bonito
	beautiful	belo
	ugly	feio
	ill / sick	doente
	healthy	saudável
	happy / cheerful	feliz alegre
	sad	triste
	sporty	desportivo
	ambitioned	ambicionado
	intelligent	inteligente
	creative	criador
	active	activo
	sentimental	sentimental
	rational	racional
	emotional	emocional
	natural	natural
	romantic	romântico
	nice / amiable	simpático amável
	spontaneous	espontâneo
	energetic	enérgico
	stressed (out)	stressado
	relaxed	descontraído
	frustrated	frustrado
	talented	talentoso

Questions & phrases

	English	Portuguese	Pronunciation (Audio)
	What does he look like?	Como é que ele é?
	What does she look like?	Como é que ela é?
	What is he like?	Como é ele?
	What is she like?	Como é ela?

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