Transcriber’s Notes:
Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_
in the original text.
Equal signs “=” before and after a word or phrase indicate =bold=
in the original text.
Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals.
Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved.
Typographical and punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
A NEW
PRACTICAL AND EASY METHOD
OF LEARNING
THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE.
AFTER THE SYSTEM
OF
F. AHN,
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND PROFESSOR
AT THE COLLEGE OF NEUSS.
LONDON:
FRANZ THIMM,
FOREIGN PUBLISHER,
3 BROOK STREET,
GROSVENOR SQUARE. W.
1857.
PREFACE.
“_Learn a foreign language as you learned your mother-tongue._” It is
the way that nature herself follows, it is the same which the mother
points out in speaking to her child, repeating to it a hundred times
the same words, combining them imperceptibly and succeeding in this
way in making it speak the same language she speaks. To learn in this
manner is no longer a study, it is an amusement. This is in a few
words the Method which Prof. =Ahn= has so successfully adopted in his
continental Grammars.
The Editor of this Grammar has followed the rational System, which has
already procured for Prof. =Ahn= a European reputation, and he has
adopted it for the Study of the Portuguese Language. He is greatly
indebted to the excellent Grammars by =Bösche=, =Müller=, etc., which
he has used for the ground work of this Grammar and it is hoped that
its simplicity and utility will procure for it that favour, which the
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Latin
Grammars of Prof. =Ahn= have already found in the Colleges and Schools
of England.
=The Editor.=
The Copyright for England, France and Germany is secured.
INDEX.
FIRST COURSE.
Page
The Pronunciation 1
PART I.
Declension of the definite Article 7
Declension of the indefinite Article 8
Contractions of the Article with the Prepositions 9
=On the Gender= 10
Masculine 10
Feminine Substantive 11
Formation of the Plural 14
Declension of Substantives 18
=The Adjective= 20
The Plural of Adjectives 21
The Comparison of Adjectives 23
Irregular Comparisons 24
Declension of the Adjective 24
=The Numbers= 26
1. The Cardinal Numbers 26
2. The Ordinal Numbers 27
3. Fractional Numbers 27
4. Proportional Numbers 28
5. Collective Numbers 28
=Pronouns= 30
1. Personal Pronouns 30
2. Conjunctive Pronouns 31
3. Mixed Pronouns 31
4. Possessive Pronouns 33
5. Demonstrative Pronouns 34
6. Relative Pronouns 35
7. Interrogative Pronouns 36
8. Indefinite Pronouns 37