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Peço a gentileza de acusar o recebimento deste e-mail.

Kindly acknowledge receipt of this email.

C2formal requestformalAudio · coming soon

Why every word is where it is

Peço1verbI askpedir · present · 1st sing.adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitegentileza1nounkindnessfem. · sing.deprepositionof, fromacusar2verbacknowledgeinfinitiveodeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiterecebimento2nounreceiptmasc. · sing.desteprepositionof thisde + este · masc. · sing.e-mailnounemailmasc. · sing..
  • Peço → gentileza: pedir a gentileza de + infinitive
  • acusar → recebimento: acusar o recebimento

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    «peço a gentileza de» = kindly…: a fixed polite formula in business emails.
  2. 2
    «acusar o recebimento» = acknowledge receipt (Spanish «acusar recibo»); note «recebimento», not «recibo».