Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar a previsão orçamentária.

Here, caber a alguém + infinitive means to be someone’s responsibility to do something, to fall to someone to do something, or to be up to someone to do something.

So:

• Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar... = It is the fiscal council’s responsibility to verify...

This is a fairly formal construction, common in administrative, legal, and institutional Portuguese.

Also, the basic verb caber often means to fit, but in sentences like this it has the abstract meaning of to be incumbent on or to fall to someone.

Because caber normally takes the preposition a when it means to be someone’s responsibility.

So:

• a + o = ao

That means:

• ao conselho fiscal = to the fiscal council

The structure is:

• Cabe a alguém fazer algo
• It falls to someone to do something

Examples:

• Cabe ao diretor decidir.
• Cabe aos alunos entregar o trabalho.

So ao is required by the verb pattern.

Conselho fiscal is a formal institutional term. In Brazilian Portuguese, it usually refers to a body responsible for supervising finances, accounts, or financial management.

Depending on context, it might be translated as:

• fiscal council
• supervisory board
• audit committee
• board of fiscal oversight

The exact English equivalent depends on the organization. In Brazilian legal and corporate contexts, conselho fiscal is often a specific oversight body with defined powers.

Because after caber a alguém, Portuguese commonly uses an infinitive to express what that person is supposed to do.

So:

• Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar... = It is up to the fiscal council to verify...

The infinitive verificar works like to verify in English.

This pattern is very common:

• Cabe ao governo agir.
• Cabe ao juiz decidir.
• Cabe à comissão analisar o caso.

It is singular because the grammatical subject is not really o conselho fiscal here. The person or body introduced by a is an indirect object-like complement, not the subject.

What is really functioning as the subject is the infinitive idea:

• verificar a previsão orçamentária

An infinitive clause is treated as singular, so the verb stays singular:

• Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar...

You can think of it roughly as:

• Verificar a previsão orçamentária cabe ao conselho fiscal.

That sounds less natural in normal usage, but it shows why cabe is singular.

Previsão orçamentária refers to the budget forecast, budget estimate, or projected budget figures.

Breaking it down:

• previsão = forecast, prediction, estimate
• orçamentária = budget-related, budgetary

So this is not necessarily the final approved budget itself. It often refers to what is projected, planned, or estimated in budget terms.

Depending on context, it could be translated as:

• budget forecast
• budget projection
• budget estimate

In Brazilian Portuguese, orçamentário/orçamentária is the normal adjective meaning budgetary or related to the budget.

In European Portuguese, you may also see orçamental more often.

So for Brazilian Portuguese:

• previsão orçamentária sounds natural and standard.

Both forms relate to orçamento (budget), but orçamentária is the expected Brazilian choice here.

Yes, and that version is perfectly natural. But the nuance is a little different.

• Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar...

  • more formal
  • sounds institutional, legal, procedural
  • emphasizes responsibility/assignment

• O conselho fiscal deve verificar...

  • more direct
  • means the fiscal council must/should verify...
  • emphasizes obligation

So the original sentence sounds especially appropriate in statutes, regulations, bylaws, official reports, and legal texts.

Yes. A common alternative is:

• Ao conselho fiscal cabe verificar a previsão orçamentária.

This is also correct and often sounds even more formal or emphatic.

Both mean the same thing:

• Cabe ao conselho fiscal verificar...
• Ao conselho fiscal cabe verificar...

The second version puts more focus on ao conselho fiscal.

Yes, definitely. This is formal, administrative, and somewhat legal-sounding Portuguese.

A more everyday version might be something like:

• O conselho fiscal é responsável por verificar a previsão orçamentária.
• O conselho fiscal tem que verificar a previsão orçamentária.

But in official documents, the original style is very common because it sounds precise and impersonal.

Yes. Verificar often looks like English verify, and sometimes that translation works well. But in Portuguese it can also mean:

• check
• examine
• review
• confirm

So in context, verificar a previsão orçamentária could mean:

• verify the budget forecast
• review the budget projection
• check the budget estimate

The best English choice depends on how strict or technical the context is. In many institutional contexts, review or check may sound more natural than verify, even though verify is a close literal match.