List of 100+ Vegetables in Portuguese

Let us start off in the absolute beginning. Close your eyes… You are a baby…. What are the first few words that you speak? You start saying words you like which are basically all the food pieces that you eat. And babies are fed all the vegetables. This is true for a Portuguese speaking child as well. For the Portuguese child, it formulates nothing but the absolute basics of List of Vegetables in Portuguese including the list of legumes / beans in Portuguese..

Now let us skip ahead and go to school… I’m sure in school, we would have learnt about the vocabulary list of Vegetables. Now what about a child studying in Portuguese? Would it not be the case that they learn about the list of Vegetables in Portuguese and the list of beans in Portuguese?

One of the “most” common topics in Portuguese A1 is learning the vocabulary for how to describe what one ate and this always involves fruits and vegetables. We have already covered list of fruits, berries and nuts in another post. In this post, we will be learning about a comprehensive list of vegetables in Portuguese with tons and tons of examples

Topics to be covered:

1. How to say Vegetables in Portuguese?
2. Complete List of Vegetables in Portuguese?
3. Common supermarket vegetables in Portuguese
4. Beans and lentils in Portuguese?
5. Leafy vegetables in Portuguese?
6. Parts of a plant in Portuguese?

How do you say “Vegetable” in Portuguese?

• SINGULAR: The Portuguese translation for “The vegetable” is “O vegetal”
  • EXAMPLE: “Potato is a vegetable.” à A batata é um vegetal.
• PLURAL: The Portuguese word for “The Vegetables” is “Os vegetais”
  • EXAMPLE: “I like vegetables.” à Eu gosto de vegetais.

Root vegetables in Portuguese with examples

Who doesn’t like a nice potato or an onion based dish. If you ask me (a true potato lover that I am) it’s nigh impossible for me to cook without either of the two. Literally speaking, potatoes are like a lifeline to me. Similarly we have a ton of root based vegetables which needs to be memorized in your quest to master the list of Portuguese Vegetables.

These are the common root based Vegetables that are found in any Portuguese supermarket and thus form an important part of the list of Portuguese vegetables. You can now learn the Portuguese vocabulary for the list of root based vegetables in Portuguese.

Common vegetables in Portuguese

Ok, let’s do a bit of role play…. You are in Portugal…. You’re in a supermarket trying to pick up some local variety of vegetables to cook and eat.  How do you know which ones you need and which ones you don’t? You need to know the List of Vegetables in Portuguese and the list of lentils and beans in Portuguese.

Now that you have memorized the long list of Portuguese root vegetables, let’s dive into the most common Portuguese vegetables that you can see in Portuguese supermarkets and consumed by most Portuguese households.

Beans and lentils in Portuguese

WHOOOHOOO!! You have now memorized the long list of root vegetables in Portuguese and the even longer list of common Portuguese vegetables. Step 2 of memorizing the list of Vegetables in Portuguese is now complete….

Step three will be to memorize the most common list of beans and lentils in Portuguese. I understand that lentils and beans strictly don’t fall into the category of list of vegetables in Portuguese, buy hey, can you live without them? A ton of Portuguese dishes incorporate beans and lentils and you really cannot avoid them. They are common in Indian cuisine, African cuisine, and Chinese cuisine and also in South Asian cuisine.

Thus, lentils and beans are quite common in European cuisine and in fact all over the world. So let’s get digging into the list of beans and lentils in Portuguese, a sub part of the list of Vegetables in Portuguese and the list of beans in Portuguese!!

Leafy vegetables in Portuguese

Any dish that you order in Portugal will offer you a side of salad. Even a burger will have a leaf of lettuce. You can find hundreds of types of salads across the world. The interesting thing about salad is that you may like one salad leaf and hate another? How do you know which one to ask and which one to not add?

You have to memorize, along with the list of vegetables in Portuguese, the Portuguese vocabulary list for the different types of Portuguese vegetables which can be used for salads.

Parts of a plant in Portuguese

I know that this topic is not included into the list of Vegetables in Portuguese. Also this is a topic which we have covered as a part of another blog (in the list of fruits in Portuguese). However I could not resist including this topic once again since this is one which is super important and highly ignored!!

Do learn and memorize the Portuguese vocabulary master word list for the different parts of a plant in Portuguese along with your List of Vegetables in Portuguese and the list of beans in Portuguese.

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