Portuguese nature and animal vocabulary: 300 words
Animals, weather, plants and the natural world (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese). This page lists 40 of them with their Portuguese translations, then lets you practise the full set in either direction with spaced repetition.
English to Portuguese: the first 40 words
| English | Portuguese | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| animal | animal | |
| plant | planta | |
| tree | árvore | |
| flower | flor | |
| grass | relva | |
| leaf | folha | |
| root | raiz | |
| stem | caule | |
| branch | ramo | |
| trunk | tronco | |
| bark | casca | |
| seed | semente | |
| soil | solo | |
| rock | rocha | A large solid mass of stone; not necessarily small like a pebble. |
| stone | pedra | Can mean a small rock, or the hard pit inside some fruits. |
| mountain | montanha | |
| valley | vale | |
| hill | colina | |
| plain | planície | |
| forest | floresta | |
| woodland | mata | Similar to forest but often smaller or less dense. |
| meadow | prado | |
| field | campo | |
| garden | jardim | |
| shrub | arbusto | A woody plant smaller than a tree, with multiple stems. |
| bush | moita | A dense woody plant; similar to shrub but often denser or more tangled. |
| moss | musgo | |
| fern | feto | |
| cactus | cacto | |
| vine | videira | |
| weed | erva daninha | An unwanted plant growing where it is not desired. |
| herb | erva | A plant used for flavoring food or for medicinal purposes; not the leafy plant itself. |
| fruit | fruta | |
| berry | baga | |
| nut | noz | |
| grain | cereal | |
| wheat | trigo | |
| corn | milho | Tall cereal plant with large seed-heads; not a hard bump on the foot. |
| rice | arroz | |
| potato | batata |
260 more words in the full “Nature & Animals” library, each aligned across seven languages and scheduled for you by spaced repetition. Add it to your account and start drilling English to Portuguese in one click.
What to watch out for in Portuguese
- 52 of these 300 words are near-identical in English and Portuguese (17%) —
animal,zebra,canyon. Those are free; the value of drilling is in the rest. - Accents count. Answers are graded accent-sensitively, so you need
áâãàçéêíó— LinguaSwap shows a one-tap keypad for them while you type. - 87 words carry a usage note in the full library, for the cases where a direct translation would mislead you.
Practise Portuguese nature and animal vocabulary
Words come back just before you would forget them, and every language direction is tracked separately.