Study Resource: Brazilian Portuguese adverbs to use with the simple present

This page provides a list of adverbs and time expressions that you will often see used with the simple present in Brazilian Portuguese.

The following Brazilian Portuguese words and phrases roughly mean “now.”

• agora (meaning now)

• nesse/neste exato momento (meaning right now)

• nessa/nesta hora (meaning this time)

• já (meaning now)

• presentemente (meaning now, presently)

• atualmente (meaning currently)

• no momento atual (meaning now, at the current time)

• no momento presente (meaning now, at the present moment)

• nesse/neste instante (meaning now, in this moment)

• nessa/nesta ocasião (meaning now, in this occasion)

The following Brazilian Portuguese words and phrases are often used to describe frequency — how often something happens.

• sempre (meaning always)

• quase sempre (meaning usually)

• normalmente (meaning often)

• frequentemente (meaning often)

• ocasionalmente (meaning occasionally)

• raramente (meaning rarely)

• nunca (meaning never)

• às vezes (meaning sometimes)

• todos os dias/anos/ séculos (meaning every day/year/century)

• de quando em quando (meaning once in a while)

• de quando em quando (meaning every now and then)

• regularmente (meaning regularly)