Word
Eu quero comprar um sanduíche de queijo hoje.
Meaning
I want to buy a cheese sandwich today.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Lesson
Questions & Answers about Eu quero comprar um sanduíche de queijo hoje.
Why are there two verbs in Eu quero comprar um sanduíche de queijo hoje?
Because Portuguese often uses querer + infinitive to say to want to do something.
- quero = I want
- comprar = to buy
So quero comprar literally means I want to buy.
This is very similar to English:
- I want to eat
- I want to go
- I want to buy
In Portuguese:
- quero comer
- quero ir
- quero comprar
Can I leave out eu?
Yes. In Brazilian Portuguese, subject pronouns are often omitted when the verb already makes the subject clear.
So both of these are natural:
- Eu quero comprar um sanduíche de queijo hoje.
- Quero comprar um sanduíche de queijo hoje.
The version with eu can sound a little more explicit or emphatic, but both are correct.
Why is it um sanduíche and not uma sanduíche?