A votação continua até os condôminos deliberarem.

Votação means the voting, the vote, or the voting process, depending on context.

In this sentence, A votação continua suggests an ongoing process:

• The voting continues
• The vote remains open
• Voting continues

So it is not just one single act of voting, but the process or period during which people are voting.

A is the feminine singular definite article, meaning the.

So:

• a votação = the voting

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English does. In English, you might sometimes say just Voting continues..., but in Portuguese it is very natural to say A votação continua...

Continua means continues or keeps going.

It is the 3rd person singular present indicative form of continuar.

Why singular? Because the subject is A votação, which is singular.

So:

• A votação continua = The voting continues

Portuguese often uses the present tense for something that is currently happening and will remain true up to a future point, just like English does in sentences such as The meeting continues until noon.

Here, até means until.

So:

• até os condôminos deliberarem = until the condo owners / co-owners deliberate

It marks the point in time when the action in the main clause stops:

• The voting continues
• until the condo owners reach a decision / deliberate

In Brazilian Portuguese, condômino usually refers to a person who owns a unit in a condominium or jointly owns property in a building or complex.

Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• condo owner
• unit owner
• co-owner

It does not simply mean any resident. A renter living in the building is not usually a condômino.

Os means the.

So:

• os condôminos = the condo owners / the co-owners

Portuguese often uses the definite article where English may or may not use it. In this sentence, os condôminos refers to a specific group: the owners involved in that condominium or meeting.

Without the article, condôminos would sound more general or less anchored to a specific known group.

Because after até in this structure, Portuguese does not normally use a regular finite indicative verb like deliberam.

Instead, it uses a form like deliberarem, which here is best understood as the personal infinitive:

• até os condôminos deliberarem

This structure is very common after prepositions when the subject is expressed.

Compare:

• sem eles saberem = without them knowing
• para nós fazermos isso = for us to do that
• até os condôminos deliberarem = until the condo owners deliberate

If you said até os condôminos deliberam, it would sound ungrammatical in standard Portuguese.

In this sentence, it is most naturally analyzed as the personal infinitive, because it comes after the preposition até without que.

However, this can be confusing because for many verbs, the personal infinitive and the future subjunctive have exactly the same form.

For deliberar:

• personal infinitive:

  • eu — deliberar
  • tu — deliberares
  • ele/ela — deliberar
  • nós — deliberarmos
  • eles/elas — deliberarem

• future subjunctive:

  • eu — deliberar
  • tu — deliberares
  • ele/ela — deliberar
  • nós — deliberarmos
  • eles/elas — deliberarem

So the form is identical.

A useful rule:

• até + verb → often personal infinitive
• até que + verb → usually subjunctive

Yes. That is a very natural alternative.

Compare:

• A votação continua até os condôminos deliberarem.
• A votação continua até que os condôminos deliberem.

Both mean essentially the same thing:

• The voting continues until the condo owners deliberate / reach a decision.

The difference is mainly structural:

• até + personal infinitive
• até que + subjunctive

Both are correct and common.

The -em ending shows that the subject is they:

• os condôminos = the condo owners = plural

So the verb agrees with that plural subject.

Compare the personal infinitive forms:

• até eu deliberar = until I deliberate
• até você deliberar = until you deliberate
• até nós deliberarmos = until we deliberate
• até eles deliberarem = until they deliberate

In your sentence, os condôminos corresponds to eles, so you get deliberarem.

Not exactly.

• votar = to vote
• decidir = to decide
• deliberar = to deliberate, to discuss formally and reach a decision

Deliberar is more formal and often used in meetings, boards, associations, and legal or administrative contexts.

So in this sentence, the idea is not just that the condo owners cast votes, but that they formally consider the matter and come to a decision.

Usually, yes.

A votação continua suggests that the voting is currently open or ongoing, and it will remain so until the owners deliberate.

So the timeline is:

1. voting is in progress
2. the condo owners deliberate
3. the voting stops at that point

The present tense here is very natural for an action that is ongoing now and continues up to a future limit.

Yes, it sounds fairly formal or administrative.

That comes from words like:

• votação
• condôminos
• deliberarem

This is the kind of sentence you might see in:

• condominium meeting rules
• official notices
• legal or administrative documents
• meeting minutes

In everyday informal speech, people might use simpler wording, but this sentence is perfectly natural in formal Brazilian Portuguese.