A máquina ainda está ligada, então vou pendurar a roupa depois.

Ainda means still here.

So A máquina ainda está ligada = The machine is still on / still running.

In other contexts, ainda can also mean yet, depending on the sentence:

• Ainda não = not yet
• Você ainda mora aqui? = Do you still live here?

Portuguese uses estar for temporary states or conditions, and ser for more permanent characteristics.

Here, ligada means on / switched on / running, which is a temporary condition, so estar is the correct verb:

• A máquina está ligada = The machine is on
• A máquina é nova = The machine is new

Using é ligada here would sound wrong for the meaning of being on.

In this sentence, ligada means on, switched on, or sometimes running, depending on context.

The basic idea is that the machine is active, not turned off.

Examples:

• A televisão está ligada = The TV is on
• O computador está ligado = The computer is on

Literally, ligado/a can also mean connected, but in everyday Brazilian Portuguese it very often means turned on when talking about devices.

Because máquina is a feminine noun in Portuguese.

Adjectives and participle-like forms such as ligado / ligada must agree with the noun:

• o computador está ligado
• a máquina está ligada

So the ending changes to match the gender of the noun.

Most likely, yes.

By itself, máquina just means machine, but the rest of the sentence gives the context:

• pendurar a roupa suggests hanging laundry to dry

Because of that, a Brazilian speaker will usually understand a máquina here as the washing machine.

In everyday speech, people often rely on context instead of saying the full phrase máquina de lavar.

In Portuguese, roupa is grammatically singular, but it can refer to:

• clothing in general
• clothes
• laundry

So pendurar a roupa often means hang the laundry / hang the clothes.

This is very natural in Portuguese. It works a bit like a mass noun in English, where one singular form can refer to a collection.

In this context, pendurar a roupa means to hang the clothes up, usually to dry after washing.

Depending on the situation, natural translations could be:

• hang the clothes
• hang up the laundry
• put the laundry out to dry

A very similar verb you will also hear in Brazil is estender:

• Vou estender a roupa = I’m going to hang out the laundry

Both are common, though estender a roupa is especially common for laundry.

Vou pendurar is the very common spoken way to express the future in Brazilian Portuguese.

It is formed with:

• ir in the present + infinitive

So:

• vou pendurar = I’m going to hang
• vou fazer = I’m going to do
• vou sair = I’m going to leave

The simple future, such as pendurarei, is grammatically correct, but it sounds more formal or less common in everyday conversation.

Portuguese often drops subject pronouns when the verb form already makes the subject clear.

Here, vou clearly means I go / I am going, so eu is unnecessary:

• (Eu) vou pendurar a roupa depois

Both are correct, but omitting eu is very common and natural.

Então means so, then, or therefore here.

It connects the two ideas:

• The machine is still on
• so I’ll hang the clothes later

It shows consequence or result.

Other examples:

• Está chovendo, então vou ficar em casa. = It’s raining, so I’m staying home.
• Então, o que você acha? = So, what do you think?

The exact translation depends on context.

Depois means later or afterwards.

In this sentence:

• vou pendurar a roupa depois = I’ll hang the clothes later

Putting depois at the end is very natural in Portuguese. You could also move it:

• Depois, vou pendurar a roupa
• Vou depois pendurar a roupa

But the original word order sounds the most natural in everyday speech.

Yes, very possibly.

If someone says A máquina ainda está ligada, they often mean the washing machine is still running, so the clothes are not ready to be hung yet.

So the sentence naturally suggests:

• the machine has not finished
• therefore the speaker will hang the laundry later

Even though ligada literally means on, the practical meaning here is often still running.

Yes. A Brazilian speaker might also say things like:

• A máquina ainda está ligada, então vou estender a roupa depois.
• A máquina ainda está funcionando, então depois eu penduro a roupa.
• A máquina ainda não terminou, então vou pendurar a roupa mais tarde.

These all express roughly the same idea, with small differences:

• está ligada = is on
• está funcionando = is working/running
• ainda não terminou = hasn’t finished yet
• mais tarde = later, similar to depois in this context