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O Convite Para o Concerto

The Invitation to the Concert

Maria is in Porto on holiday. She meets up with her friend Luís and they make plans to go to a concert at Casa da Música.

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  • 00:00:03Luís: Boa tarde, Maria. Como é que estás?
  • 00:00:05Maria: Boa tarde. Estou bem, obrigada. E tu?
  • 00:00:09Luís: Também estou bem.
  • 00:00:10Maria: Nunca mais te tinha visto desde que nos encontrámos no metro.
  • 00:00:15Luís: É verdade. Já estava com saudades de saber mais acerca de ti.
  • 00:00:19Como é que estão a ser as tuas férias aqui no Porto?
  • 00:00:22Maria: Estão a ser fantásticas. Desde que falei contigo, já fui visitar a Ribeira e a Foz,
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AcolhedorasWelcoming Baixa da cidadeDowntown o concertoconcert fériasholidays, vacations a livrariabookstore o metrosubway, metro o planoplan
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Até logo!See you later! Não te preocupesDon't worry
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A Distração Perfeita
Cais do Sodré
Estação de São Bento
Jantar em Casa do José
Viver Para Dar aos Outros
Vasco da Gama
Rita E Raquel Vão Ao Cinema
Memórias De Ontem
O Miguel Faz A Vontade À Gisela
Tratado de Tordesilhas

Comments

  • Olá! Could you please explain the use of mais-que-perfeito in the following sentence: “Nunca mais te tinha visto desde que nos encontrámos no metro.” Thank you!

    • Olá, Tibor! Ideally, the pretérito mais-que-perfeito would be used for events in a distant past, before something that happened in a more recent past. But in practice, apart from that, it may also appear in everyday conversation in contexts where the simple past would be enough. That’s the case here. The simple past would be absolutely fine and even more correct (Nunca mais te vi desde que nos encontrámos no metro), but the speaker went for the mais-que-perfeito as just another alternative, even though the action of not seeing him happened after, not before, the time they crossed paths on the subway. A feature of casual Portuguese speech 🙂

  • Como é que estão a ser as ferias…
    Is the ‘a ser’ necessary here and why?

    Also if I want to ask How were your holidays, would I use estiveram or estavam? I’m hoping it’s estiveram!!
    Thanks in advance.

    • Olá! Since we’re talking about an ongoing situation, the Present Continuous is applicable here. “A ser” is necessary if we want to clearly express that continuity, since it’s what helps form the Portuguese version of the Present Continuous (auxiliary verb estar + preposition a + main verb in the infinitive).

      To ask “How were your holidays”, we’d say: Como foram as (tuas) férias? 🙂 “Foram” is a past conjugation of the verb “ser”. Note how the verb “ser” is also the main verb in “estão a ser”.

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