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In Brazil, what is 'café da manhã'?

Breakfast

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  1. Breakfast ✔
  2. Dinner
  3. A coffee shop

Why: Café da manhã means morning coffee, which is breakfast. In Portugal the usual word is pequeno-almoço.

Huh, didn't know that: Priberam defines pequeno-almoço as the first meal of the morning.

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Why did the hipster burn his mouth? He drank the coffee before it was cool.
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Answer: Breakfast. Café da manhã means morning coffee, which is breakfast. In Portugal the usual word is pequeno-almoço.

  1. FSI Brazilian Portuguese FAST, Volume 1 (Foreign Service Institute) fsi-language-courses-media.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/languages/Portuguese/FAST/Volume%201/FSI%20-%20Portuguese%20FAST%20-%20Volume%201.pdf
    O senhor quer mandar o café da manhã para o quarto 318, por favor?
    Checked 2026-10-11.
  2. Wiktionary: café da manhã en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=caf%C3%A9_da_manh%C3%A3&action=raw
    {{lb|pt|Brazil}} [[breakfast]] {{gloss|first meal of the day}}
    Checked 2026-10-11.

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