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Lesson Six - The Train

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Edit Dialogue 6 Ricardo: O senhor pode me dizer a que horas parte o próximo comboio para o Porto? Alberto: Às três horas. O senhor tem bilhete? Ricardo: Não. Posso comprar um bilhete? Alberto: Sim. Quer um bilhete de segunda classe? Ricardo: Sim. Quanto custa? Alberto: Três euros. Ricardo: De que plataforma parte o comboio? Alberto: Da plataforma três.

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Here Ricardo is buying a ticket for a train (o comboio in Portugal, "the train" is translated as o trem in Brazil). He also asks some other questions about the train he wants to catch. In this lesson we're going to learn how to ask questions in Portuguese. We've already seen one way of asking questions, when we looked at verbs like "gostar":

Você gosta de Lisboa? - Do you like Lisbon? O senhor gosta da viagem? - Do you like the voyage/trip?

These are almost exactly the same as stating something:

Você gosta do gato. - You like the cat. A senhora gosta da amiga - You like the friend.

In fact, the only difference between these sentences is that there is a question mark at the end of the questions. In Portuguese, you can ask a yes/no question by just stating something and putting a question mark at the end of it. In the spoken language, you should pronounce with a rising intonation toward the end of the sentence, just like in English. This is an extremely easy way to form a question:

STATEMENT & QUESTION MARK = YES/NO QUESTION

And how do we answer such questions? Well, of course, with a "Yes" or a "No". When Alberto asks Ricardo

O senhor tem bilhete?

Ricardo could answer with...

Yes	No
Sim	Não

We've also encountered another way to ask questions. Back in lesson three we learnt how to ask someone what they were going to do on a certain day. Do you remember?

O que vai fazer na terça-feira? - What are you going to do on Tuesday?

O que vão fazer eles no domingo? - What are they going to do on Sunday?

The two words 'O que' mean "what?"

O que é que ela quer comer? - What does she want to eat? De que é que tu gostas?''' - What do you like?

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