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BP51.2 Study Resource: Common intransitive verbs in Brazilian Portuguese

By: Ana Amélia Rodrigues dos Santos
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These activities are part of our Brazilian Portuguese Grammar series. The skills we are practicing here are covered in our article:

The following are the common intransitive verbs (verbs that do not take an object) in Brazilian Portuguese.

Brazilian Portugese
English

nascer

to be born

viver

to live

voltar

to come back

chegar

to arrive

chorar

to cry

cair

to fall

dormir

to sleep

deitar

to lie down

sentar

to sit down

levantar

to stand up

sofrer

to suffer

casar-se

to get married

suceder

to succeed

proceder

to proceed

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