Boa noite, meus queridos! Good evening, my dear! When in Brazil, you will definitely want to try our delicious local food and drinks, ride the public transportation to go to lots of different places, visit museums, parks, maybe buy the papers to check the news and even take a break from all that action to grab a cup of coffee. Well, one thing is certain: you will need dinheiro (money) to do all that. So our lesson today is going to teach more about a moeda brasileira (Brazilian currency) to help your way around our paper bills and coins.

Despite being a highly touristic country, hardly any place takes dollars or any foreign currency around here, so it is a good idea to stop by an exchange office either before leaving or upon arriving Brazil and getting yourself some reais to avoid any inconvenience.

Palavras-chave | Keywords:

dinheiro – money

moeda (object) – coin

moeda – currency

nota – paper bill

centavos – cents

Now let’s take a look at some information:

• Our official currency is the real (the plural form is reais)
• To represent it, we use the symbol R$ (for example, a cup of coffee costs about R$2,00)
• We have notas (paper bills) and moedas (coins)
• The moedas have important historical figures on one side and its valor (value) on the other
• The notas have the symbol of the head of the republic on one side and native animals of our land on the other side

Here are our coins:

 

 

Moeda de cinco centavos (Five cents coin)

Moeda de dez centavos (Ten cents coin)

Moeda de vinte e cinco centavos (A quarter)

Moeda de cinquenta centavos (Fifty cents coin)

Moeda de um real (One real coin)

And the notas:

Nota de dois reais (Two reais bill)

Nota de cinco reais (Five reais bill)

Nota de dez reais (Ten reais bill)

Nota de vinte reais (Twenty reais bill)

Nota de cinquenta reais (Fifty reais bill)

Nota de cem reais (A hundred reais bill)

É isso! This is it! Stay tuned for more!

Are you ready to spend now?