É importante diminuir o barulho durante a reunião.

to be

Breakdown of É importante diminuir o barulho durante a reunião.

• durante: during
• importante: important
• o barulho: the noise

Questions & Answers about É importante diminuir o barulho durante a reunião.

Why does the sentence start with É instead of Isso é or É preciso?

É importante is a very common impersonal structure in Portuguese, just like It is important in English.

• É importante diminuir o barulho = It is important to reduce the noise
• The it is not translated as a separate word here.

You could also say:

• É preciso diminuir o barulho = It is necessary to reduce the noise
• Isso é importante = That is important

But isso é importante means something slightly different: it points to a specific thing already mentioned. In your sentence, é importante is just making a general statement.

Why is diminuir in the infinitive form?

After expressions like é importante, Portuguese often uses an infinitive verb, just like English does after it is important to...

So:

• É importante diminuir o barulho
• literally: It is important to reduce the noise

Other similar examples:

• É bom descansar = It is good to rest
• É difícil entender isso = It is difficult to understand that

You do not need to conjugate diminuir here because no specific subject is being named.