🟣 CRASE || Aula de Português da Prof. Letícia | Português do Zero

Hey, welcome to another episode of Portuguese with Letícia! If you're enjoying our lessons, subscribe to our channel, give us a like, like our Facebook page, and follow us on Twitter too! Today's topic is crasis, so you can learn it once and for all! First, you need to understand why it exists. Before trying to

memorize a bunch of rules about where it is and where it isn't, you need to understand what crasis is, what leads to its occurrence. Well, at the beginning of everything in the Portuguese language, there's a topic called government (regency). Look, some nouns and verbs require a complement. Sometimes this complement comes with an accent mark, and sometimes it always comes with an accent mark.

So, we have the term that governs the nouns and verbs. A more important term, let's say, is a term that is governed, which would be subordinate to this governing term. So, the governing term is a term that is governed, someone who commands and someone who obeys. Let's think about it this way: here in the

first slide, we have two sentences: " Junho likes zombie games" and " Valentina likes to watch violent series." Well, we have two verbs there: the verb "like" and the verb "to watch." The verb "like"... The verb "assistir

a" requires the preposition "a". Just look, whoever likes something always likes something. Have you ever said, "I like games"? No, you always say, "I like games." The case of "assistir a" is a little different because in everyday speech we don't use the preposition "a" with the verb "assistir." Grammars say that "assistir" requires the preposition "a," so it would be "who

watches" or "assistir a" something, as is the case with Valentina and "assistir a séries violências." Okay, we don't say "assistir a alguma coisa" in everyday speech either, it's not a problem, but you need to know that according to grammars, if you are writing a text according to standard usage, the verb "assistir" in the