Phrase · 🎭 Indirect invitations & refusals
Vou fazer uma moqueca no domingo; vocês vêm?
I'm making a moqueca on Sunday; are you coming?
C2real invitation: plan + questioninformalAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
VouverbI'm going toir · present · 1st sing.fazerverbmakeinfinitiveumadetermineraum · fem. · sing. · indefinitemoqueca1nounmoqueca (fish stew)fem. · sing.noprepositionon (the)em + o · masc. · sing. · definitedomingonounSundaymasc. · sing.;vocêspronounyou (plural)você · 2nd pl.vêm2verbcomevir · present · 3rd pl.?
- Vou → fazer: ir + infinitive
- vocês → vêm: vocês → vêm
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1A plan with a dish and a day: a real invitation. Pragmatics of Brazilian indirectness & politeness →
- 2«vêm» (they come) has a circumflex; «vem» is singular.