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Hi everyone, I'm Paloma. Oi, gente! Aqui é a Paloma, and welcome to another whiteboard lesson.
Today, we are going to talk about Brazilian currency and large numbers in Portuguese.
Ok, so let's jump right into the vocabulary for this lesson.
First one is dez, ten.
Second, eleven, onze.
Doze, twelve. Treze, thirteen.
Quatorze, fourteen. Quinze, fifteen.
Dezesseis, sixteen. And dezessete.
Dezessete is seventeen.
Dezoito, eighteen.
Next one is dezenove, nineteen.
Vinte, twenty. Then we're going to the tens, trinta, thirty, quarenta, forty,
cinquenta, fifty. Sessenta, sixty. Setenta, seventy,
oitenta, eighty, noventa, ninety.
And the last one is cem. You actually have two ways of saying it. If it's just a number 100, we say cem.
But if it's 100 and something, then we use cento. Cem or cento. Cem, cento.
Next one is duzentos, two hundred. Trezentos, three hundred. Quatrocentos, four hundred. Quinhentos, five hundred.
Seiscentos, six hundred. Setecentos, seven hundred. Oitocentos, eight hundred. Novecentos, nine hundred, and one thousand.
Mil, mil.
Okay, let's see the last ones.
Two thousand, dois mil, três mil, three thousand. Quatro mil, four thousand. Cinco mil, five thousand.
Seis mil, six thousand. Sete mil, seven thousand. Oito mil, eight thousand. Nove mil, nine thousand.
And the last one is dez mil, ten thousand.
So actually for the numbers três and dez, you can just say both dez, dez or três, três
both ways are correct in Portuguese.
Now let's move on to the dialogue for today.
Quanto custa? Custa vinte e cinco reais.
Quanto custa?, how much does it cost?
Custa vinte e cinco reais.
It costs twenty-five reais.
So you can see the currency in Brazil is real, and the plural form is reais.
And also we can see in the conversation the number we are learning today,
in this case vinte e cinco, twenty-five.
So let's see the pattern for this lesson.
Custa [number] real or reais.
It costs [number] real or reais.
Okay, so let's see how we can make numbers in Portuguese.
So first is tens with ones.
We use the word e.
Tens e ones.
For example, thirty-three is trinta e três.
We have hundreds; that's [hundreds] e [tens] e [ones].
For example, 129, that's cento e vinte e nove.
Here you can see cento, right? From here,
we have cem and cento.
Cem is when you say it by itself,
cem reais, one hundred reais.
And cento e vinte e nove, one hundred twenty-nine.
And the last ones are [thousands] [hundreds] e [tens] e [ones].
So you don't need e between thousands and hundreds in Portuguese.
For example, 9571, that's nove mil quinhentos e setenta e um.
In Brazil, the currency is called real.
It was created in 1994, or mil novecentos e noventa e quatro.
Currently, one American dollar is about five reais.
For example, custa um real, it costs one real,
or custa duzentos reais, it costs two hundred reais.

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