Estou com pressa agora, então vou sair sem tomar café.

In Portuguese, ter/estar com + noun is a very common way to express temporary physical or emotional states.

So estou com pressa literally means I am with hurry, but naturally it means I’m in a hurry.

A few similar examples:

• Estou com fome = I’m hungry
• Estou com sede = I’m thirsty
• Estou com sono = I’m sleepy

This is just the normal Portuguese pattern, so estou com pressa is exactly what you would expect a native speaker to say.

Because pressa is a temporary state, not a permanent characteristic.

Portuguese usually uses:

• ser for more permanent identity or defining characteristics
• estar for temporary conditions, states, or situations

So:

• Estou com pressa = I’m in a hurry right now
• Sou apressado/a = I’m a hurried/rushed person, or I tend to be impatient/rush things

In this sentence, the speaker means a current situation, so estou is the correct choice.

Pressa means hurry or urgency.

In estou com pressa, it means the speaker does not have much time and needs to move quickly.

Useful related expressions:

• ter pressa = to be in a hurry
• com pressa = in a hurry
• sem pressa = without hurry / no rush

For example:

• Estou com pressa.
• Não precisa responder agora, sem pressa.

Agora means now, and its position is flexible.

In Estou com pressa agora, it emphasizes that the hurry is happening at this moment. Portuguese often places time words like agora either at the end or elsewhere in the sentence depending on rhythm and emphasis.

These are all natural:

• Agora estou com pressa.
• Estou com pressa agora.
• Estou agora com pressa. (less common in everyday speech)

The version in your sentence sounds very natural and conversational.

Here, então means so, therefore, or in that case.

It connects the first idea to the consequence:

• Estou com pressa agora = I’m in a hurry now
• então vou sair = so I’m going to leave

Very common uses of então:

• as so / therefore
• as a conversation filler, like so...
• sometimes to move the conversation along

In this sentence, it is simply showing cause/result.

Both can mean I will leave, but vou sair is much more common in everyday Brazilian Portuguese.

There are two main future options here:

• vou sair = literally I’m going to leave
• sairei = simple future, I will leave

In spoken Brazilian Portuguese, ir + infinitive is often preferred because it sounds more natural and conversational.

So:

• Vou sair = very common in speech
• Sairei = correct, but often sounds more formal, written, or less conversational

Yes. Grammatically, it is the structure ir + infinitive, which expresses a future action.

So:

• vou = present tense of ir
• sair = infinitive to leave / to go out

Together, vou sair means I’m going to leave or simply I’ll leave.

This structure is one of the most common ways to talk about the future in Brazilian Portuguese:

• Vou estudar mais tarde.
• Vamos comer agora.
• Ela vai chegar cedo.

It can mean either, depending on context.

Sair often means:

• to leave
• to go out
• to go away

In this sentence, vou sair most naturally means I’m going to leave. If the context is leaving the house, it could also feel like go out, but leave is the safest translation here.

Examples:

• Vou sair de casa. = I’m going to leave the house.
• Vou sair com meus amigos. = I’m going out with my friends.

Sem means without, and after a preposition like sem, Portuguese commonly uses the infinitive to express an action.

So:

• sem tomar café = without having coffee / without drinking coffee / without having breakfast

This structure is very common:

• sem pensar = without thinking
• sem falar nada = without saying anything
• sem estudar = without studying

So the sentence means the speaker will leave and will not do the action of tomar café beforehand.

Both are possible, but they are not always exactly the same.

• beber café = to drink coffee
• tomar café = can mean to drink coffee, but very often also to have breakfast

In Brazilian Portuguese, tomar is frequently used with drinks:

• tomar água
• tomar leite
• tomar café

So sem tomar café may mean:

1. without drinking coffee
2. without having breakfast

The exact meaning depends on context. In many everyday situations, native speakers may understand this as without having breakfast.

It can mean either one.

In Brazilian Portuguese:

• café = coffee
• café da manhã = breakfast

But in casual speech, tomar café can sometimes be used as a shorter way to mean have breakfast, especially if the context is the morning routine.

So sem tomar café could mean:

• without drinking coffee
• without having breakfast

If someone wants to be completely specific, they might say:

• sem tomar café da manhã = without having breakfast

Because Portuguese often omits the article with nouns when speaking in a general sense, especially after certain verbs and in set expressions.

So:

• tomar café = to have coffee / have breakfast
• tomar o café = to have the coffee / drink the coffee, usually more specific

Compare:

• Vou tomar café. = I’m going to have coffee / breakfast.
• Vou tomar o café que você fez. = I’m going to drink the coffee you made.

Without the article, the phrase is more general and idiomatic.

Yes, but it changes the meaning.

• sem tomar café = without having coffee / breakfast in a general sense
• sem tomar o café = without drinking the coffee, referring to a specific coffee already known in the conversation

So in your sentence, sem tomar café is the natural general expression.

The comma separates two connected clauses and helps show the logical pause:

• Estou com pressa agora
• então vou sair sem tomar café

It works much like English:

• I’m in a hurry now, so I’m going to leave without having coffee.

In Portuguese writing, this comma is natural and helps readability.

Yes, there are several natural variations, depending on what exactly you want to emphasize.

For example:

• Estou com pressa agora, então vou sair sem tomar café.
• Estou com pressa, então vou sair sem tomar café.
• Como estou com pressa, vou sair sem tomar café.
• Vou sair sem tomar café porque estou com pressa.

They all work, but your original sentence is already very natural in Brazilian Portuguese.

In careful pronunciation, it is:

Es-tou com PRES-sa a-GO-ra, en-TÃO vou sa-IR sem to-MAR ca-FÉ.

In natural Brazilian speech, some sounds may be reduced a bit:

• estou may sound like tô in informal speech
• para often becomes pra, though that word is not in this sentence
• the rhythm will usually stress pressa, então, sair, and café

An informal spoken version could be:

• Tô com pressa agora, então vou sair sem tomar café.

That sounds very natural in conversation.

Yes, absolutely. That is a very common informal spoken version.

• Estou is the full form
• Tô is the reduced, conversational form

So:

• Estou com pressa agora... = neutral/full
• Tô com pressa agora... = informal/everyday speech

Both are correct. If you are learning standard Portuguese, it is good to know the full form, but you will hear tô all the time in Brazil.