Because learning European Portuguese was never going to be tidy. Every week: the language, the culture, the things nobody puts in a textbook. Written from Lisbon, with coffee and chaos.
Someone left a comment online last week about feeling completely lost on where to even begin with Portuguese. I see this all the time. So we're doing something about it.
A proper guide, in order, the same way I work with my private students. You get a preview of exactly what that looks like.
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Acabar by itself means to finish, to end. Simple. Acabar de + infinitive means "just [did something]" — the action happened moments ago and you can still feel it.
Acabar → Ela acabou o trabalho. She finished the work. Acabar de → Nós acabámos de chegar a casa. We just arrived home.
Same verb. Com...
