O churrasqueiro repôs o carvão.

Here, churrasqueiro means the person in charge of grilling the meat at a barbecue — basically the cook or grill master.

In Brazilian Portuguese, churrasco is a barbecue, and -eiro is a common ending used to form nouns for people associated with something. So churrasqueiro is literally someone connected with churrasco.

A useful thing to remember:

• churrasqueiro = the person
• churrasqueira = the barbecue grill / barbecue area

O is the masculine singular definite article, equivalent to the.

So:

• o churrasqueiro = the grill master
• o carvão = the charcoal

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English does. In this sentence, both nouns are being treated as specific:

• a specific grill master
• a specific supply of charcoal

Repôs is in the preterite, the tense normally used in Brazilian Portuguese for a completed action in the past.

So the sentence describes one finished action: the charcoal was replenished / replaced.

Compare:

• repõe = replaces / replenishes
• repôs = replaced / replenished
• repunha = used to replace / was replacing

The infinitive is repor, which means to replace, to put back, or to replenish, depending on context.

In this sentence, repor o carvão means something like:

• to replenish the charcoal
• to add more charcoal
• to replace the charcoal

Because repor is built from the verb pôr (to put), and it follows the same irregular pattern.

Compare:

• pôr → pôs
• repor → repôs

So repôs is basically the past form built on the irregular past of pôr.

This is very useful because several compounds of pôr behave similarly.

In Brazilian Portuguese, repôs is pronounced roughly like heh-POHS.

Key points:

• The stress falls on the last syllable: -pôs
• The ô has a closed o sound
• The circumflex accent marks both stress and vowel quality here

So it is not pronounced like RE-pos.

Carvão is pronounced roughly car-VAWN, with the stress on the last syllable.

Important points:

• ão is a nasal sound, very common in Portuguese
• English speakers often find this tricky at first
• The final sound is not exactly ow or on — it is nasalized

A rough approximation is:

• car
  • VAWN
    but with the ending produced through the nose

In Portuguese, carvão is often treated as a mass noun, like charcoal in English.

So repor o carvão means replenishing the charcoal supply in general, not necessarily one single piece.

If you wanted to talk about individual pieces, Portuguese can do that too, but in this kind of barbecue context, the singular is very natural.

Yes, absolutely. Colocou mais carvão would sound very natural in Brazilian Portuguese.

The difference is nuance:

• repôs o carvão = he replenished/replaced the charcoal; a bit more formal or precise
• colocou mais carvão = he put in more charcoal; very everyday and direct

So both work, but repor emphasizes restoring the amount that was needed.

No. This is the normal Portuguese word order:

subject + verb + object

• O churrasqueiro = subject
• repôs = verb
• o carvão = direct object

This is the most neutral and standard way to say it.

You could change the order in special contexts, but this version is the basic one learners should remember.

Not necessarily. It can refer to:

• a professional grill cook
• the person handling the barbecue at a party
• someone known for being good at making churrasco

So in everyday Brazilian Portuguese, it does not have to mean a formal job title. It can simply mean the person working the grill.

Yes. That is why it can be slightly tricky for English speakers.

Depending on context, repor can mean:

• to put back
• to replace
• to restore
• to replenish

In this sentence, because the object is charcoal, the most natural idea is replenish or add more to restore the amount.