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How these two languages compare, and what it means for your translations.
Portuguese uses the Latin script while Cantonese uses Chinese characters. Because the two do not share an alphabet, translated output cannot be sounded out from the original spelling — copy the result directly rather than trying to transcribe it.
Portuguese belongs to the Indo-European family while Cantonese belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family. With no shared ancestry there are few cognates to fall back on, so idioms and fixed expressions rarely map word-for-word. Short, literal sentences translate more accurately than figurative ones between these two.
Both languages follow subject-verb-object (SVO) order, so clauses usually keep their shape during translation. Words tend to land in a similar position in the sentence, which makes it easier to check a translation against the original even without fluency.
Portuguese: Approximately 280 million speakers worldwide, with about 230 million in Brazil and 10 million in Portugal. Cantonese: Approximately 86 million people speak Cantonese as their first language.
Everyday phrases translated from Portuguese to Cantonese — useful for travel, conversation and learning.
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Olá | 你好 |
| Bom dia | 早晨 |
| Boa tarde | 下午好 |
| Boa noite | 晚上好 |
| Boa noite | 晚安 |
| Adeus | 再見 |
| Até mais | 遲啲見 |
| Até amanhã | 聽日見 |
| Bem vindo | 歡迎 |
| Como você está? | 你點呀？ |
| Estou bem, obrigado | 我好好，多謝你 |
| Tenha um bom dia | 祝你過個好日子 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Por favor | 唔該 |
| Obrigado | 多謝你 |
| Muito obrigado | 好多謝你 |
| De nada | 歡迎你 |
| Sim | 係呀 |
| Não | 唔係 |
| Com licença | 唔好意思 |
| Me desculpe | 對唔住 |
| Sem problemas | 冇問題 |
| Claro | 當然啦 |
| Parabéns | 恭喜你 |
| Boa sorte | 祝你好運 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Qual é o seu nome? | 你叫咩名？ |
| Prazer em conhecê-lo | 好開心認識你 |
| De onde você é? | 你嚟自邊度？ |
| Quantos anos você tem? | 你幾歲？ |
| Eu sou um estudante | 我係個學生 |
| Estou aqui de férias | 我喺度度假 |
| Estou aqui para trabalhar | 我嚟呢度係為咗做嘢 |
| Este é meu amigo | 呢個係我朋友 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Um | 一 |
| Dois | 兩個 |
| Três | 三 |
| Quatro | 四 |
| Cinco | 五 |
| Seis | 六 |
| Sete | 七 |
| Oito | 八 |
| Nove | 九 |
| Dez | 十 |
| Cem | 一百 |
| Mil | 一千 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Hoje | 今日 |
| Amanhã | 聽日 |
| Ontem | 尋日 |
| Agora | 而家 |
| Mais tarde | 遲啲 |
| Que horas são? | 而家幾點？ |
| De manhã | 喺朝早 |
| À noite | 喺夜晚 |
| Segunda-feira | 星期一 |
| Sexta-feira | 星期五 |
| Semana que vem | 下星期 |
| Uma hora | 一個鐘 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Onde fica o banheiro? | 個浴室喺邊？ |
| Onde fica a estação de trem? | 火車站喺邊？ |
| Onde fica o aeroporto? | 機場喺邊？ |
| Como faço para chegar lá? | 我點樣去到嗰度？ |
| Vire à esquerda | 轉咗 |
| Vire à direita | 右轉 |
| Vá em frente | 直行 |
| Está perto | 佢喺附近 |
| Está longe | 好遠 |
| Estou perdido | 我迷失咗 |
| Eu preciso de um táxi | 我要架的士 |
| Onde posso comprar um ingresso? | 我可以喺邊度買飛？ |
| Quanto custa o bilhete? | 飛幾錢？ |
| É seguro caminhar? | 行得安全嗎？ |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Estou com fome | 我好肚餓 |
| Estou com sede | 我好口渴 |
| Água, por favor | 水，唔該 |
| Uma mesa para dois, por favor | 唔該，一張兩個人嘅枱 |
| O cardápio, por favor | 餐牌，唔該 |
| O que você recomenda? | 你推薦啲咩？ |
| Eu gostaria disso | 我想要呢個 |
| É delicioso | 好好味 |
| A conta, por favor | 張單，唔該 |
| Eu não como carne | 我唔食肉 |
| Eu tenho uma alergia alimentar | 我有食物過敏 |
| Café | 咖啡 |
| Chá | 茶 |
| Pão | 麵包 |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Quanto custa isso? | 呢個要幾多錢？ |
| É muito caro | 太貴喇 |
| Você aceita cartões de crédito? | 你接受信用卡嗎？ |
| Estou apenas olhando | 我只係搵緊 |
| Eu vou pegar | 我會攞佢 |
| Abrir | 開咗 |
| Fechado | 閂咗 |
| Entrada | 入口 |
| Sair | 退出 |
| Onde está o mercado? | 個市場喺邊度？ |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Ajuda | 幫手 |
| Chame um médico | 打電話去醫生度 |
| Chame a polícia | 打畀警察 |
| Eu preciso de ajuda | 我需要幫手 |
| Estou doente | 我病咗 |
| Onde fica o hospital? | 醫院喺邊？ |
| Onde fica a farmácia? | 藥房喺邊？ |
| Dói aqui | 呢度好痛 |
| Eu preciso de um médico | 我需要一個醫生 |
| Existe um hospital próximo? | 附近有冇醫院？ |
| Portuguese | Cantonese |
|---|---|
| Você fala inglês? | 你識唔識講英文？ |
| Eu não entendo | 我唔明 |
| Eu entendo | 我明白 |
| Por favor fale devagar | 唔該慢慢講 |
| Por favor repita isso | 請重複嗰個 |
| Por favor, escreva | 唔該寫低佢 |
| O que isso significa? | 呢個係咩意思？ |
| Como você diz isso? | 你點講呢句？ |
| Estou aprendendo | 我學緊嘢 |
| Eu falo um pouco | 我講少少嘢 |
| Você pode me ajudar? | 你可唔可以幫我？ |
| Não sei | 我唔知道 |
Translations are generated automatically and may vary by region or context.
Cantonese is primarily spoken in the Guangdong and Guangxi provinces of China, including Hong Kong and Macau. It is also widely spoken in overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe.
Cantonese does not use an alphabet per se, but utilizes traditional Chinese characters for writing and Jyutping for phonetic transcription.
Cantonese features six tones in its modern form, each of which can alter the meaning of a word. The language is known for its rich array of tones, more so than Mandarin Chinese.
Typically follows a Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order but is highly flexible. Uses particles to indicate tense and aspect rather than inflection.
Incorporates loanwords from English, Japanese, and other Chinese dialects, especially in modern usage within Hong Kong and Macau.
Part of the Chinese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is one of the major regional varieties of Chinese.
Primarily uses traditional Chinese characters. There is no widely adopted standard for writing colloquial Cantonese, although informal romanization systems are used for educational purposes, dictionaries, and online communication.
While literary written Chinese (Classical Chinese) was used historically for formal writing, modern written Cantonese has developed to better match the spoken language, especially in informal contexts.
Approximately 86 million people speak Cantonese as their first language.
Official language in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor, and Macau.
Uses Latin alphabet with 26 letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Features nasal vowels, distinctive nasal diphthongs, and complex vowel reduction patterns in unstressed syllables.
Subject-verb-object (SVO) word order. Two-gender system (masculine/feminine), complex verbal system with subjunctive mood extensively used.
Contains loanwords from Arabic, indigenous languages of Brazil and Africa, French, English, and various contact languages.
Part of the Indo-European family, specifically the West Ibero-Romance branch, closely related to Spanish and Galician.
Uses Latin script with diacritical marks (acute, circumflex, tilde, cedilla).
Evolved from Latin during medieval period, orthography standardized differently in Portugal and Brazil with 1990 agreement attempting unification.
Approximately 280 million speakers worldwide, with about 230 million in Brazil and 10 million in Portugal.
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