🇵🇹 Portuguese Emergencies & Health
The twelve phrases you hope you'll never need — help, doctor, pharmacy, allergies. Learn them once; they matter most. Read them below — then actually say them: recognising a phrase and producing it out loud are different skills, and only one helps you in the moment.
| English | Portuguese |
|---|---|
| Help! | Socorro! |
| Call the police! | Chame a polícia! |
| Call an ambulance! | Chame uma ambulância! |
| I need a doctor | Preciso de um médico |
| The pharmacy | A farmácia |
| The hospital | O hospital |
| I feel sick | Estou passando mal |
| It hurts here | Dói aqui |
| I'm allergic | Sou alérgico/a |
| I lost my passport | Perdi meu passaporte |
| My phone was stolen | Roubaram meu celular |
| It's an emergency | É uma emergência |
How to make these stick
- Say each phrase out loud three times — your mouth learns separately from your eyes.
- Rehearse the scene: imagine the café or the street corner and act out both sides.
- Then use them in a real conversation — Yap gives you a 30-second spoken role-play with an AI tutor that responds, corrects gently, and never judges.
More Portuguese phrases
Greetings & BasicsOrdering Food & DrinksAsking for DirectionsNumbers 1–10Shopping & MoneySmall Talk & IntroductionsDays & Telling TimeHotel & Check-in