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Primeira Vez Em Portugal

First Time In Portugal

A tourist and his partner arrive in Lisbon. Follow along as they get help buying SIM cards for their cellphones.

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  • 00:00:03Empregada: Boa tarde. Posso ajudá-lo?
  • 00:00:04Turista: Boa tarde. Sim… Nós estamos a visitar Portugal e precisamos de um cartão SIM pré-pago.
  • 00:00:13Empregada: Muito bem. É a vossa primeira vez em Portugal?
  • 00:00:16Turista: Sim, é. Estamos muito entusiasmados.
  • 00:00:20Empregada: Vão ficar aqui em Lisboa?
  • 00:00:22Turista: Ficamos três dias em Lisboa.
  • 00:00:24Depois vamos visitar o Porto e… como se chama o outro sítio...? Gerês. É assim, não é?
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alguma coisasomething calcularto calculate, estimate, figure Cartão SIMSIM card ChamadasCalls Dados móveisMobile data a estadiastay noun ficarto stay, belocated, become mostrarto show Pré-pagoPrepaid as redes sociaissocial networks, social media SMSSMS, text messages O sítioplace only, just o trocochange veztime, instance visitarto visit voltarto go back, return válidovalid masc.,sing.
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De momentoAt the moment O mais indicadoMost suitable, most appropriate Aqui temHere you go sing.,formal
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Um Patê Muito Bom
O Aquecimento Global
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Operação Stop
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O “Mestre” do Engate

Comments

    • Olá, Denis. The word has more than one meaning 🙂 “Móveis” means furniture when used as a noun, and it means “mobile” (i.e. something that can be moved around) when used as an adjective, as is the case here. Colloquially, “móvel” can also be short for “telemóvel” (mobile phone).

  • having to cancel our plans 1.5 years ago due to COVID, we depart to Portugal on Sunday until Oct 20! we want to relocate from the USA.
    i have been studying Practice Português for 1.5 years! now i will determine what i have learned!
    thanks for your teaching skills!

  • We have done so, but are retired. You may be all right if you are self-employed or working for a large firm. There are many positive things about Portugal. Wouldn’t live anywhere else now

    • Olá, Franz. It is grammatically correct. This is something we can phrase in two ways:
      – Estar a procurar -> To be searching for -> This is the typical Present Continuous structure (auxiliary verb estar + preposition a + infinitive).
      – Estar à procura -> To be in search of -> This is a variation where instead of the verb “procurar” in the infinitive, we have the noun “procura”, preceded by both the preposition “a” and the definite article “a”. It’s the contraction of both that forms “à” (with accent). This is the most commonly used one.

      From option #1, we would form the question “O que está a procurar o turista?”. From option #2, we would form the question “De que está à procura o turista?” – the one you saw in the quiz.

  • Joseph – you might be interested to know that “moveables” (also spelled “movables”) can mean furniture in English and is still a term used in Scottish law. It is probably only luck that we didn’t end up calling cellphones “moveable telephones”!

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