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Study Resources: Indefinite words 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:

Here we summarize the forms of different indefinite pronouns and indefinite adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese. Check out our post on indefinite words in Brazilian Portuguese to see how they are used.

Variable indefinite pronouns and adjectives in Brazilian Portuguese

	Gender			Number
	Masculine	Feminine	Translation	Masculine	Feminine	Translation
Variable indefinite pronouns & adjectives	algum	alguma	something	alguns	algumas	some things
	nenhum	nenhuma	none	nenhuns	nenhumas	none
	todo	toda	all	todos	todas	all
	outro	outra	other, another	outros	outras	others
	muito	muita	many	muitos	muitas	many
	pouco	pouca	few	poucos	poucas	few
	tanto	tanta	so much	tantos	tantas	many, so many
	quanto	quanta	how much	quantos	quantas	how many
	vário	vária	various	vários	várias	several
	qualquer		any	quaisquer		any
	bastante		quite, enough	bastantes		quite, enough
Variable indefinite adjectives only	certo	certa	certain	certos	certas	certain

Invariable indefinite adjectives and pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese

	Invariable indefinites
	Brazilian Portuguese	English
Indefinite pronouns	alguém	somebody
	ninguém	nobody
	tudo	everything
	nada	nothing
	algo	something
Indefinite adjective	cada	each

Indefinite pronouns with multiple words in Brazilian Portuguese

Indefinite pronoun with multiple words	Translation
cada um	each one
cada qual	each one
quem quer que	whoever
todo aquele que	whoever
seja quem for	whoever
seja qual for	whatever

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