Brazilian Portuguese Grammar
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Personal pronouns Pronomes pessoais |
There are two categories of personal pronouns: subject pronouns, which are called pronomes pessoais do caso reto, and object pronouns, called pronomes pessoais do caso oblíquo:
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Pronomes pessoais do caso reto play the syntactic role of verb subject;
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Pronomes pessoais do caso oblíquo play the syntactic role of verb complement.
| Subject pronouns - Pronomes pessoais do caso reto | |
| Portuguese | English |
| eu | I |
| tu | you |
| ele | he, it |
| ela | she, it |
| nós | we |
| vós | you |
| eles | they (masculine plural) |
| elas | they (feminine plural) |
The pronouns você (you, singular) and vocês (you, plural), widely used in Brazil instead of tu (you - singular) and vós (you, plural) respectively, belong to another class of pronouns in Portuguese, called pronomes de tratamento (address forms).
Read more about this on Introduction to verbs
| Object pronouns - Pronomes pessoais do caso oblíquo | ||
| Portuguese | English | |
| Unstressed pronouns (Pronomes atonos) | Stressed pronouns (Pronomes tônicos) | |
| me | mim | me |
| te | ti | you |
| o, lhe | ele | him, it |
| a, lhe | ela | her, it |
| nos | nos | us |
| vos | vos | you |
| os, lhes | eles | them (masculine plural) |
| as, lhes | elas | them (feminine plural) |
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Main Difference:
Examples: Give me the book - Dê-me o livro Give the book to me - Dê o livro para mim He said he loves her. - Ele disse que a ama. He said he would talk to her. - Ele disse que conversaria com ela. *prepositions |
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