Have fun with examples of the most difficult tongue twisters in Portuguese!

Quickly repeat: "Three Sad Tigers ate from a plate of wheat." Were you able to repeat without crashing? It's a hell of a difficulty, isn't it? For this is the purpose of so-called tongue twisters. Let's know a little more about them?

What is a tongue twister?

The tongue twister is the game of words that were phrases that were difficult to pronounce due to the similarity between the terms that compose it. The “player” needs to say, clearly and quickly, phrases or verbs that are difficult to pronounce because they have similar sounds.

Its name even comes from this difficulty in pronouncing sounds quickly. This set of words originates from popular culture and is a type of parlenda, that is, children's rhymes and can come in the form of phrases, verses or prose.

How to use tongue twister at school?

The tongue twister, in fact, is not a simple joke. Its structure becomes an excellent exercise in improving pronunciation. Therefore, it can be worked with children at school who really love playing tongue twisters!

The little ones repeat them for the simple challenge of reproducing the phrases without making mistakes. Another benefit is that, with the tongue twister, children learn the notion of rhythm. The faster they try to repeat, the less they get right.

As they are folkloric elements, tongue twisters are also a great source of studying the customs of different regions.

Curiosity

As a linguistic practice tool, the tongue twister is part of a book recommended by the National Reading Plan for first-year students. This is Destrava-Línguas, a collection produced by the Portuguese writer Luísa Ducla Soares.

Examples of tongue twisters

1. The spotted cow was wetted by another wet spotted cow.
2. Dirty house dirty floor.
3. Pedro has a black chest, Pedro's chest is black.; Anyone who says that Pedro's chest is black has a chest that is blacker than Pedro's chest.
4. – A Milan lemon, a thousand Milan lemons, a million Milan lemons.
5. Chupa cane sucker cane on the bed sucks cane kicks the bed falls to the floor.
6. She has a three-banded armadillo, with seven three-banded armadillos. Whoever unlocks her, a good unlocker will be.
7. A nest of mafagafos, with five mafagafinhos, who can desmafagaf the mafagafos, will be a good desmafagafizador.
8. Drip the kite inside the dish, sink the dick and meow the cat.
9. If the pope ate pope, if the pope ate bread, if the pope ate everything, he would be a boogeyman.
10. White catfish, white catfish.
11. There are four frames three and three frames four. Four of these frames are square, one of frames four and three of frames three. The three frames that are not square are two of frames four and one of frames three.
12. In the vase there was a spider and a frog. The frog scratches the spider. The spider scratches the frog.
13. Thick grease box for free
14. Bring ink in thirty bowls
15. Look at the frog inside the bag. The bag with the frog inside. The chatting frog. And the chat letting the wind.
16. He wants you to tell me seven times in a row, without making a mistake and without taking a breath: black cow, painted ox.
17. The chick sinks, the kite drips. Drip the kite and the sink pinto. The more the chick sinks, the more the kite drips.
18. I respect the perfect mayor.
19. Curly pig and black stump. Black stump and curly pig.
20. Three graduated dragons and thirty cracked earrings.
21. Cook whispered that he had cooked chayote chocho in a dirty pan.
22. Drip the sink, trim the plate, sink the dick and meow the cat.
23. Pedro Pedroca is helpful and provides services in the quarry.
24. There are four frames three and three frames four. Four of these frames are square, one of frames four and three of frames three. The three frames that are not square are two of frames four and one of frames three.
25. The mouse gnawed the clothes of the king of Rome.
26. The main principle of the prince began mainly with the princely principle of the princess.
27. A triple lock locked Tancredo.
28. The priest has little cover, because little cover buys.
29. Three wheat dishes for three sad tigers.
30. Behind the crooked door is a dead nut.
31. Luzia was shining the striped chandelier, the striped chandelier was shining.
32. Knowing what I know and knowing what you know and what you don't know and what we don't know, we'll both know if we're wise, knowing or we'll just know if we're knowing.
33. Pile of straw and old tile. Straw in pile and old tile. Pile of tile and old straw.
34. In fast kidnapping, a fast mouse kidnapped three mice without leaving a trace.
35. Pedro's father hammers a nail into the wall of the building.
36. They said that on my street there are parallelepipeds made of parallelograms. Six parallelograms have a parallelepiped. A thousand parallelepipeds have a parallelepipedway. A parallelepiped path has a thousand parallelograms. So a parallelepiped path is a parallelogramland?
37. Speak, blond macaw. The blond macaw will speak.
38. To hear the tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock. After a tick plays, a tock is played.
39. The mouse gnawed at the King of Rome's clothes, the queen angrily decided to patch it up.
40. The candy asked the candy which candy is sweeter than sweet potato candy. The candy replied to the candy, that the candy sweeter than the sweet potato candy is the sweet potato candy.
41. Behind the sink is a plate, a dick and a cat. Drip the sink, onto the plate, sink the dick and meow the cat.
42. Life is a successive succession of successions that succeed each other successively, without success succeeding...
43. Hello, is the armadillo there? – No, the armadillo is not. But the woman with the armadillo. It's the same as the armadillo is.
44. If the Archbishop-Bishop of Constantinople wanted to deconstantinople it, there would be no deconstantinopleizer who deconstantinopleized it in a deconstantinople way.
45. A weaver weaves the cloth into seven silks of Zion. It has been silk woven in the weaver's lot.
46. The cobbled street is all parallelepiped.
47. Time asked time how much time time has, Time replied to time that time has the time that time has.
48. The priest has little cover because little cover buys
49. Farofa made with lots of fluffy flour makes an ugly gossip.
50. The watchmaker Borges ruminated by gnawing on pomegranate root shavings.
51. Iara grabs and ties the rare Araraquara macaw
52. If the shuttle came and went, the shuttle would go, but as the shuttle goes and doesn't come, the shuttle doesn't go.