The official language in the Azores is Portuguese. You should therefore learn a few words, as only a small portion of the nine islands speak English. You'll have to communicate with your hands and feet. The locals are used to this and are always helpful. We've translated a number of everyday words:
| Everyday words: | |
| Good morning, good day | good morning |
| Good day, good evening | good afternoon |
| Good night | Boa Noite |
| Auf Wiedersehen | bye |
| See you later | ate logo |
| Until tomorrow | last day |
| Ja | yes |
| No | not |
| growing | bem |
| bad | little- |
| Please | please |
| Thank You | thank you |
| Entschuldigung | excuse me |
| More | closest |
| fewer | less |
| Attention | attention |
| Speak... ..German ? ..English ? ..French? ..Spanish? | fala.. ..German? ..English? ..French? ..Spanish? |
| Input | entry |
| Output | saida |
| open | |
| closed | closed |
| to press | push |
| ziehen | to pull |
| occupied | busy |
| Free | free |
| Men's restroom | men |
| Women's restroom | women |
| Questions: | |
| Where ? | where ? |
| Where is/are .. ..the bus stop? ..a taxi? ..a telephone? | the wave is/is .. ..a paragem? ..about a taxi? ..about telephones? |
| Where does the bus leave from? | where is the truck? |
| Where does the bus go? | para onde what is this autocarro? |
| Wann? | when ? |
| When is it open/closed? | when is it wrong/failed? |
| When does the bus leave? | when does the truck leave? |
| How much ? | how much? |
| How much does it cost .. ? | how much ..? |
| How many kilometers is it to ..? | quantos quilómetros sao até .. ? |
| As ? | how? |
| How do I get to .. ? | how to go to ..? |
| Wie heissen Sie? | how is it? |
| Is here .. ? | have here ..? |
| What time is it ? | what hours are there? |
| Do you have...? | tem .. ? |
| Do you have a room available? | system for four? |
| Numbers: | |
| 1 um, uma 2 dois, duas 3 three 4 four 5 fives 6 six 7 seven 8 oito 9 new 10 Dec 11 onze 12 doses 13 three 14 cats 15 quinze 16 decasseis 17 decassete 18 deciliters 19 dezanove 20 wins | 21 win and around, win and around 30 trinta 40 quarenta 50 quinquenta 60 sessenta 70 set 80 oitenta 90 noventa 100 cent 101 cents and around 200 ducentos 300 thirteenths 400 four-centuries 500 quinhentos 600 seismic 700 years 800 years 900 nuptials 1000 thousand 1001 mil e around |
| Tag: | |
| Monday | Monday |
| Tuesday | terca-feira |
| Wednesday | Wednesday |
| Thursday | Thursday |
| Friday | Friday |
| Saturday | Saturday |
| Sunday | sunday |
| Months: | |
| January | January |
| February | February |
| Mar. | Marco |
| April | April |
| Mai | May |
| June | June |
| July | July |
| August | August |
| September | September |
| October | October |
| November | November |
| December | December |
| seasons: | |
| Spring | spring |
| Summer | summer |
| Autumn | Autumn |
| Winter | winter |
| Time information: | |
| Today | Hoje |
| Yesterday | yesterday |
| Tomorrow | tomorrow |
| In the morning | manha |
| Midday | by noon |
| Afternoon/Evening | the afternoon |
| nachts | in the evening |
| Last year | last year |
| Next year | next year |
| This morning | this manha |
| This afternoon | late logo |
| This evening | this afternoon |
| Tonight | this night |
| Times: | |
| It is four o'clock | sao four hours |
| It is 20 past five | sao cinco e vinte |
| It is a quarter to six | sao seis less for four |
| Es ist halb sieben | sao seis e maia |
| It is a quarter past eight | sao oito and a quarter |
| Post: | mail: |
| Phone | Phone |
| Brief | letter |
| postcard | postal |
| stamps | selos |
| I would like to call .. | ask for a phone call to... |
| poste restante | post office |
| Bank: | bank: |
| Checkout | box |
| Currency Exchange | exchange |
| Money | money |
| I would like to exchange money. | I want to earn money. |
| I would like to cash a check. | I'd like to withdraw a check. |
| Euro | euro |
| Swiss franc | franco suico |
| receipt | receipt |
| identification card | passport |
| Traffic: | |
| Bus | bus |
| stop | stop |
| Timetable | Time |
| Ship | ship |
| Port | port |
| Airports | airport |
| Flight | flight |
| Airplane | airplane |
| departure | game |
| Arrivals | chegada |
| Luggage | Baggage |
| Food and drink: | |
| breakfast | breakfast |
| Lunch | lunch |
| Dinner | dinner |
| Exhibitions | Knife |
| Spoons | calhar |
| Fork | fork |
| toothpick | little stick |
| Teller | meadow |
| Tuition fees | chavena |
| Glass | cup |
| bottle | garaffa |
| Menu | list |
| Wine List | wine list |
| Daily meal | dish of the day |
| on account | a counts |
| The check, please | a account, I prefer. |
| Enjoy your meal | well done |
| Süss | sweet |
| sour | acre, azedo |
| sharp | hot spicy |
| fat | Fat |
| skinny | thin |
| fresh | fresh |
| Salt | shawl |
| pepper | chili |
| Vinegar | vinegar |
| olive oil | olive oil |
| Vinegar and oil rack | galheteiro |
| Garlic | garlic |
| Mustard | mustard |
| Sugar | sugar |
| Ei | ovo |
| Appetizers: | tickets: |
| pao | Bread |
| butter | Butter |
| cheese | Cheese |
| fresh/white cheese | cream cheese |
| soup | Soup |
| piri-piric | spicy red pepper sauce |
| vegetables soup | vegetable soup |
| fish soup | Fishsoup |
| fish stew | Fishsoup |
| green heat | cabbage soup |
| Espirito Santo soup | Holy Spirit Soup |
| Chicken Soup | Chicken soup with rice |
| olives | Olives |
| tuna salad | Tuna salad |
| melt with premonition | Melon with ham |
| Fish dishes: | fish: |
| abrotea | Forkbeard |
| Tuna | Tuna |
| cod | Cod/Stockfish |
| sea bream | sea bream |
| nice | small tuna species |
| black mouth | Blackmouth |
| caldeirada | fish stew |
| tent | carp |
| mackerel | mackerel |
| Cherne | Wreckfish/Silverfish |
| mackerel | small stickleback |
| conger | Conger eel/sea eel |
| Golden | Gilthead |
| swordfish | Swordfish |
| espetada | Barracuda |
| grouper | grouper |
| Goraz | Gilthead |
| emperor | Emperor perch |
| Language | Rat tongue |
| sole | sole |
| squid | squid |
| moray eel | Moray eel |
| snapper | Sea bream |
| fish-espada | Scabbardfish |
| hake | hake |
| dust | Octopus |
| rabilo | red tuna |
| citizens | skate |
| queen | Peacock |
| redhead | gurnard |
| rocaz | red deep-sea fish |
| salmon | Salmon |
| sardine | Sardine |
| sargo | Ringed bream |
| sepia | Cuttlefish |
| greenhouse | sawfish |
| drum | monkfish |
| truta | Trout |
| flying | Longfin tuna |
| Seafood: | seafood: |
| ameijoas a natural | cockles |
| shrimp | large shrimp/crabs |
| barnacles | barnacles |
| leg | shrimp |
| lagostino | Lobster |
| Lobster | crayfish |
| limpets | barnacles |
| washing machine | Lobster |
| santola | spider crab |
| Shoemaker | Edible crab |
| Meat dishes: | meat: |
| rump | braised beef with vegetables |
| assado misto | mixed braised meat |
| home-made beer | House-style steak |
| beef | Steak |
| pork bife | pork steak |
| cow's meat | beef steak |
| lombo beef | back steak |
| kid | kid |
| CA CA | Wild |
| Roast beef | Braised meat with sauce |
| cow meat | Beef |
| coelho | Rabbits |
| costeleta | chop |
| cozido in portuguese | boiled beef stew |
| stewed meat | Meat stew |
| sausage | spicy smoked pork sausage |
| cutlet | schnitzel |
| Milanese ladder | Wiener Schnitzel |
| expected mista | various pieces of meat on a skewer |
| feijoada | red beans with meat |
| figado iscas | fried liver |
| linguistics | Pork sausage |
| language with contents | Sausage with yams |
| pig lops | pork loin |
| cow rams | Beef loin |
| pork loin | pork tenderloin |
| cow horn | beef |
| black pudding | Blutwurst |
| pineapple morcela | Black pudding with pineapple |
| porco | Pig |
| sausages | Sausage |
| torresmos | greaves |
| calf | calf |
| Poultry: | birds: |
| quails | quail |
| chicken | chicken |
| chicken | Chicken |
| peru | Turkey |
| Vegetables: | legumes: |
| garlic | Garlic |
| rice | Rice |
| olive oil | olive oil |
| olives | Olives |
| potatoes | potatoes |
| sweet potatoes | sweet potatoes |
| French fries | Pommes Frites |
| onion | onion |
| mushrooms | mushrooms |
| incubates | cabbage |
| salad | Samll green salad |
| peas | Peas |
| broad beans | broad beans |
| bean | Bohne |
| inhames | yams |
| mass | noodles |
| sauce | Gravy |
| cucumber | cucumber |
| pimento | bell pepper |
| salada mista | Mixed salad |
| salsa | fresh parsley |
| tomatoes | tomatoes |
| Desserts: | overmeals: |
| apricot | apricot |
| ananas | Pineapple |
| amándoas | Almonds |
| banana | Banana |
| figo | Feige |
| fruits | Fruits |
| gelado (misto) | (mixed) ice cream |
| orange | Orange |
| lead assada | Milk pudding |
| maca | Apple |
| pear | pear |
| peach | Peach |
| pudim (flan) | (Caramel) pudding |
| cheese | Cheese |
| cake/bread | Kuchen |
| Types of preparation: | |
| roast | the Gebäck |
| raw | raw |
| cooked | cooked |
| grilled | grilled |
| fresh | fresh |
| fried | the gebrat |
| no expectation | on the spit |
| stove | steamed |
| Smoked | smoked |
| stew | braised |
| bem passed | well through |
| little bit assado | halfway through |
| in English | English |
| Drinks: | drinks: |
| água mineral com gas/sem gas | Mineral water with/without carbonation |
| water, bagaco, bagaceira | pomace brandy |
| bica, café | Espresso |
| coffee with milk | Latte |
| beer | Beer |
| tea | Tea |
| gallon | Latte macchiato in a glass |
| milk | milk |
| my dear | Cup of coffee with milk |
| sumo (orange) | (Orange juice |
| table wine | Table wine |
| vinho verde | 'Green' wine, light and sparkling |
| vinho tinto, branco, rosado, verde | Red wine, white wine, rosé, green wine |
| cherries wine | local country wine |
| Reside: | |
| I would like a room ..with bathroom. ..with shower. | ask for a room ..combathroom. ..com chuveiro. |
| The check, please. | a account is good. |
| Place names: | |
| alameda (Al. / Alam.) | avenue |
| village | Village |
| avenida (Av.) | avenue |
| bath | bay |
| bairro (Bo.) | City district / settlement |
| beco (Bc.) | (Dead end |
| cabeco | Summit |
| cable | Cape |
| cais | Kai |
| calcada (Cc.) | paved path |
| field | Feld |
| Canada | narrow path |
| city | City |
| Rib | coast |
| estrada (Estr.) | country road |
| girdle | coastal plain |
| bluff | Lighthouse |
| furna | cave, grotto |
| island | Island |
| ilu | islet |
| garden | Garden |
| lake | See |
| lagoa | Crater Lake |
| largo (L. / Lg.) | PLATZ |
| race | mountain ridge |
| viewpoint | Viewpoint |
| mount | BERG |
| hill | Hugel |
| parents | Country |
| pico | mountain peak |
| ponta | headland |
| port | Port |
| praca (Pr. / Pc) | PLATZ |
| praia | Beach |
| quinta (Q.ta) | estate |
| ribeira | Bach |
| street (R.) | Street |
| greenhouse | mountain ridge |
| travessa (Tr. / Tv.) | alley |
| Urbanicacao (Urb.) | Construction area |
| town | Town |
| exclusive links | left |
| right-wing | right |
| geradeaus | in front |
| Weather: | time: |
| Sonne | Salt |
| Rain | rain |
| Snow | INFO |
| Fog | fog |
| Wind | wind |
| Storm | temporary |
| bad weather | bad weather |
| good weather | good weather |
| It is cold/warm. | this river/heat. |
