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The doctor asks about symptoms and temperature: what to say in Portuguese
The doctor asks about symptoms and temperature.
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How it's done. Constipação in Portugal means a cold, not constipation! And gripe is flu.Prepared by the Movko team, November 2026. This is language help, not legal or medical advice: check the rules with the office itself.
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1
THEY SPEAK FIRST
THEY SAY
Tem febre?Tayn febr?
Do you have a fever?
They might also say:
Sente-se com febre?
Saynt-s kohn febr?
Do you feel feverish?
YOU REPLY
Não, febre não tenho.
Now, febr now TEH-nyoo.
No, I don't have a fever.
THEY SAY
Tem tosse ou dores no corpo?Tayn tos oh DOH-rizh noo KOR-poo?
Do you have a cough or body aches?
2
YOU REPLY
Tenho tosse.
TEH-nyoo tos.
I have a cough.
THEY SAY
Parece uma constipação.Puh-RES OO-muh kohnsh-tee-puh-SOW.
It looks like a cold.
They might also say:
Vou ouvir os pulmões.
Voh oo-VEER oosh pool-MOYSH.
I'll listen to your lungs.
3
YOU FINISH
Obrigado!
oh-bree-GAH-doo!
Thank you!
Or say:Muito obrigado!
MWEE-too oh-bree-GAH-doo!
The course is in the app
This dialogue is part of the course “Portuguese for life in Portugal”: 416 situations with audio, a pronunciation guide and spaced review.
On the website the first dialogue, the 112 category, the rescue phrases and the “Basics” are fully open.
Words worth knowing
Tem
Tayn
verb
have
febre
febr
noun
temperature, fever
Não
Now
adverb
no
tenho
TEH-nyoo
verb
(I) have
tosse
tos
noun
cough
dores
DOH-rizh
noun
pains, aches
7 more words, with explanations, base forms and tap-a-word help, are in the app.
If you did not understand
Pode falar mais devagar, por favor?
Pod fuh-LAHR mighzh dvuh-GAHR, poor fuh-VOR?
Can you speak more slowly, please?
Desculpe, não percebi.
Dish-KOOLP, now pir-sih-BEE.
Sorry, I didn't understand.
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