#quackcest

there’s a lot of ways actually! i’d assume it’s somewhat similar to how france french is different from quebec french.

the biggest difference is grammar-wise! from my understanding, portugal has a completely different ways to conjugate verb tenses. or, not conjugate them, i guess. brazilian portuguese is like english in the sense that, when speaking about an action, you tend to conjugate way more than just using the infinitive. so for example, if you said “i’m running” in BR portuguese, you’d say “estou correndo”. “correndo”, in this instance, is taken from the infinitive “to run”, which is “correr”. PT portuguese, however, prefers the infinitive, and will use it as much as possible. so they’d say something like “estou a correr”, without conjugation (note: i don’t know if correr is actually the same word, this is just an example).

other things include object pronouns (BR uses “a/o” before a verb to insinuate “it”; PT uses “-lo/-la” after a verb to insinuate “it”), and i could be wrong but i think they also have different versions of “you”? BR uses “vôce” and i THINK PT uses “tu”.

This is from Nov. 2023, so I might make an updated version to tweak the graphs since I see some places I want to make adjustments.