What does “salgadinho” mean in Brazilian Portuguese?

Oferecendo salgadinho e fazendo uma brincadeira

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A2 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Picked for people who know a little

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salgadinho
Brazilian party-food vocabulary
crisps,“ or any little savoury snack — from salgado, ”salty

Salgado means salty, and Brazilians turned it into a whole food category: salgados are the savoury bites at any gathering — coxinha, pastel, empada — as opposed to the doces, the sweets. Shrink it to salgadinho and, in most of Brazil, you mean the bagged stuff: crisps, cheese puffs, corn snacks. Ask for salgadinhos at a birthday party, though, and little savoury pastries will arrive.

The doce/salgado split organises Brazilian eating: bakery counters, party trays and buffet tables are all divided along it. In the clip a boy talks up his packet to a friend with three adjectives in a row — está muito delicioso, gostoso, saboroso — which is the set-up for the trick that follows.

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this A2 Portuguese listening practice video?

89.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Most of the words in this video are common Portuguese words.

How common in written Portuguese

85.7%
Top 1,000
89.3%
Top 2,000
96.4%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Portuguese

82.1%
Top 1,000
85.7%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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