Você gostaria de ir ao teatro comigo na terça-feira à noite?

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Breakdown of Você gostaria de ir ao teatro comigo na terça-feira à noite?

• gostar de: to like
• ao: to the
• a noite: the night

Questions & Answers about Você gostaria de ir ao teatro comigo na terça-feira à noite?

Why does você use the verb form gostaria instead of a special you form?

In Brazilian Portuguese, você takes third-person singular verb forms.

So you get:

• você gostaria
• ele gostaria
• ela gostaria

This feels strange to English speakers at first, because English you has its own normal subject role. But in Portuguese, você is grammatically treated like a third-person form.

If you used tu in standard grammar, it would be:

• tu gostarias

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What does gostaria de mean here?

Here, gostaria de + infinitive means would like to + verb.

So:

• gostaria de ir = would like to go

It is a polite, softer way to invite someone or ask about their interest.

Compare:

• Você quer ir...? = Do you want to go...?
  More direct, casual.
• Você gostaria de ir...? = Would you like to go...?
  More polite, gentler.

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Why is there a de after gostaria?