O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião.

In Portuguese, the verb gostar almost always needs the preposition de after it.

• gostar de + noun:

  • gosta de música = likes music
  • gosta de perguntas = likes questions

• gostar de + infinitive (verb in basic form):

  • gosta de ler = likes to read
  • gosta de fazer perguntas = likes to ask questions

So the structure is: gostar + de + (thing you like).
Leaving out de (gosta fazer) is incorrect in standard Portuguese.

Both exist, but they’re used slightly differently.

• perguntar = to ask (someone) something

  • O aluno pergunta ao professor. = The student asks the teacher.

• fazer perguntas = to ask questions / to make questions (emphasis on questions as things)

  • O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas. = The student likes to ask questions.

fazer perguntas is very common when you talk about the habit or tendency of asking questions, as in this sentence.
You could say O aluno gosta de perguntar, but it feels more general and less idiomatic here than gosta de fazer perguntas.

Both are possible; they just give different nuances:

• O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião.

  • o = the
  • Refers to a specific student that the speaker and listener can identify (or to “the student” as a type, in a generic statement).

• Um aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião.

  • um = a / one
  • Refers to a student, but we don’t know (or don’t care) which one; it’s more indefinite.

In isolation, O aluno gosta… is usually understood as:

• talking about a specific student, or
• giving a generic, almost “textbook example” sentence.

Only the noun and the article change gender:

• O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião. (male)
• A aluna gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião. (female)

Verb forms (gosta, fazer) and the rest of the sentence stay the same; Portuguese verbs don’t change for gender, only for person/number.

You need plural articles, nouns, and the plural verb form:

• Os alunos gostam de fazer perguntas na reunião.

Changes:

• O aluno → Os alunos (the student → the students)
• gosta → gostam (he/she likes → they like)

If you also want “in the meetings” (plural), you’d say:

• Os alunos gostam de fazer perguntas nas reuniões.
  (na + s because em + as → nas)

Na is a contraction:

• em (in / at) + a (the, feminine singular) → na

So:

• em + a reunião → na reunião

Similarly:

• em + o → no (masculine singular)
• em + as → nas (feminine plural)
• em + os → nos (masculine plural)

So na reunião literally means in the meeting or at the meeting.

It can mean both. The preposition em (and its contraction na) covers several English prepositions:

• na reunião can be:
  • in the meeting
  • at the meeting
  • during the meeting (depending on context)

English splits this into different words (in / at / during), but Portuguese often uses just em/na and relies on context.

Yes, but it changes the feel slightly.

• na reunião (with article)
  
  • more specific: in the meeting (a particular meeting)
• em reunião (no article)
  
  • more generic or descriptive: in a meeting / in meetings / while in a meeting

Examples:

• O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião.
  → He likes to ask questions in that (or the) meeting.
• O aluno fala pouco quando está em reunião.
  → He speaks little when he is in a meeting / in meetings.

In your sentence, na reunião is the most natural choice.

Both forms exist and are useful:

• fazer perguntas = to ask questions (in general, plural, not counting)
• fazer uma pergunta = to ask a question (one specific question)

In your sentence, the emphasis is on the habit:

• He likes to ask questions (in general) → fazer perguntas

If you want to say “The student likes to ask a question in the meeting” (one question each time), you could say:

• O aluno gosta de fazer uma pergunta na reunião.

But for the broad idea of being someone who asks questions, fazer perguntas is more natural.

Gostar is a regular -ar verb. Present tense:

• eu gosto = I like
• você / ele / ela gosta = you / he / she likes
• nós gostamos = we like
• vocês / eles / elas gostam = you (pl.) / they like

In O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião:

• o aluno → 3rd person singular
• so we use gosta.

Portuguese word order is fairly flexible, especially with adverbials like na reunião. All of these are grammatically correct:

• O aluno gosta de fazer perguntas na reunião.
• O aluno, na reunião, gosta de fazer perguntas.
• Na reunião, o aluno gosta de fazer perguntas.

The first one is the most neutral and common.
Moving na reunião to the front (third option) can give a bit more emphasis to the setting: In the meeting, the student likes to ask questions.

Approximate Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [heh-oo-nyão]

Breakdown:

• reu → sounds like heh-oo blended (the r at the start is a guttural h sound in most of Brazil)
• ni → like nee
• ão → nasal sound, similar to own in English but nasal and shorter

Stress is on the last syllable: re-u-NHÃO.