What is “gelado” in Portuguese: ice cream or cold?

História fácil em português: o Afonso na praia

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A1 Portuguese listening practice · European Portuguese · Curated for beginners

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gelado
European Portuguese vs Brazilian vocabulary
“ice cream” in Portugal; in Brazil it’s sorvete

At a beach in Portugal you eat a gelado. In Brazil the same ice cream is a sorvete. Gelado literally means “frozen,” from gelar (“to freeze”). In Brazil, gelado is normally just an adjective, as in cerveja gelada (ice-cold beer), and sorvete is the ordinary word for ice cream.

This short story has a few more Portugal words. Afonso drinks sumo (Brazil: suco, juice), and a sandes is a sandwich (Brazil: sanduíche). The teacher asks ele come uma sandes ou gelado? (“does he eat a sandwich or ice cream?”), and the answer is gelado.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A1 Portuguese listening practice listening practice?

92.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Portuguese.

General Portuguese frequency

82.9%
Top 1,000
92.6%
Top 2,000
99.5%
Top 5,000

Spoken Portuguese frequency

83.7%
Top 1,000
94.7%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A1 level.

afonso
5×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Afonso
assistirem
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
like
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
(slang) like (social media)
português
1×
Top 5,000
Portuguese (language)

Source: HermitDave OpenSubtitles 2018 (pt-PT) (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave, pt-PT) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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