Quero acompanhar o orçamento pessoal.

In Brazilian Portuguese, the subject pronoun is often omitted when the verb already makes the subject clear.

• Quero = I want
• So Quero acompanhar o orçamento pessoal already clearly means I want to follow/track the personal budget

You could say Eu quero acompanhar o orçamento pessoal, but eu is not necessary here. Adding eu can give extra emphasis or contrast.

Querer is the infinitive form, meaning to want.
Quero is the 1st person singular present tense form: I want.

So:

• querer = to want
• quero = I want

In this sentence, the speaker is saying what they want, so the conjugated form quero is needed.

After a conjugated verb like quero, the next verb usually stays in the infinitive.

So the structure is:

• quero + infinitive
• quero acompanhar = I want to track / I want to follow

This is very similar to English:

• I want to go
• I want to learn
• I want to accompany/follow/track

In Portuguese:

• Quero ir
• Quero aprender
• Quero acompanhar

Here, acompanhar means something like:

• to follow
• to keep track of
• to monitor

In the context of money or planning, it often means to track regularly.

So in this sentence, acompanhar o orçamento pessoal suggests watching your budget over time, checking it, and staying aware of it.

It is a little broader than just look at once.

O is the definite article, meaning the.

• o orçamento pessoal = the personal budget

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English does. In many cases, a noun sounds more natural with an article in Portuguese, even where English might be more flexible.

So acompanhar o orçamento pessoal sounds natural and complete.

Without the article, acompanhar orçamento pessoal, it would sound unusual in this sentence.

Because orçamento is a masculine noun.

• masculine singular article: o
• feminine singular article: a

So:

• o orçamento
• not a orçamento

This does not mean the thing itself is biologically masculine; it is just a grammatical category.

In Portuguese, adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• orçamento pessoal = personal budget
• literally: budget personal

This is very common in Portuguese.

English usually puts adjectives before the noun, but Portuguese often puts them after. Some adjectives can also go before the noun, but pessoal naturally comes after here.

Here, pessoal means personal in the sense of belonging to an individual person, not a company or organization.

So orçamento pessoal means your own personal budget, household budget, or private budgeting plan.

Be careful: pessoal can also mean people, folks, or staff in other contexts. But here it is clearly an adjective meaning personal.

Yes, absolutely.

• o orçamento pessoal = the personal budget
• meu orçamento pessoal = my personal budget

If you want to make it more specifically yours, meu is very natural.

For example:

• Quero acompanhar meu orçamento pessoal.

That may even sound more natural in some real-life situations, depending on context.

Yes, it is grammatical and understandable. It sounds fairly neutral and somewhat formal or organized.

A Brazilian might also say:

• Quero acompanhar meu orçamento.
• Quero controlar meu orçamento.
• Quero organizar minhas finanças.

The original sentence is fine, but in everyday speech, some people might prefer a slightly simpler version like Quero acompanhar meu orçamento.

They are similar, but not identical.

• acompanhar = to follow, keep track of
• controlar = to control, manage
• monitorar = to monitor

In budget contexts:

• acompanhar o orçamento suggests regularly checking it
• controlar o orçamento suggests actively managing it
• monitorar o orçamento sounds a bit more technical or formal

So acompanhar is a good choice if the idea is staying aware of your finances over time.

A rough Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation guide would be:

KEH-roh ah-kohn-pahn-YAR oo or-sah-MEN-too pehr-soh-AL

A few helpful notes:

• quero: the que sounds like keh
• acompanhar: the final -nhar has the nh sound, similar to the ny in canyon
• orçamento: the ç sounds like s
• pessoal: the ending -al often sounds somewhat like aw in Brazilian pronunciation

If you want, I can also break the sentence down syllable by syllable in a more detailed pronunciation guide.

You can understand it word by word, but natural translation is usually better than literal translation.

Word by word:

• Quero = I want
• acompanhar = to follow / track
• o = the
• orçamento = budget
• pessoal = personal

A literal order would be:

• I want to follow the budget personal

But natural English would be:

• I want to track my personal budget
• I want to keep track of my personal budget
• I want to follow my personal budget

So it is useful to learn both the grammar pieces and the natural meaning.

The pattern is:

[implied subject] + conjugated verb + infinitive + article + noun + adjective

So here:

• [eu] = implied I
• quero = conjugated verb
• acompanhar = infinitive
• o = article
• orçamento = noun
• pessoal = adjective

That gives:

[Eu] quero acompanhar o orçamento pessoal.

This is a very common Portuguese structure, and you can build many sentences with it:

• Quero aprender português.
• Quero melhorar minha rotina.
• Quero organizar minhas despesas.