Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi, e depois vou espremer a laranja para fazer suco.

In Brazilian Portuguese, ir + infinitive is one of the most common ways to talk about the future.

• vou cortar = I am going to cut
• vou espremer = I am going to squeeze

This structure is usually more common in everyday speech than the simple future:

• cortarei
• espremerei

Those simple future forms are correct, but they often sound more formal, literary, or less conversational.

Vou + infinitive literally comes from ir (to go) plus another verb, but in this structure it means a future action.

So:

• vou cortar = I’m going to cut
• vou espremer = I’m going to squeeze

It works just like this with many verbs:

• vou comer = I’m going to eat
• vou beber = I’m going to drink
• vou fazer = I’m going to make/do

This is a very useful and common future pattern in Portuguese.

Yes. In Portuguese, subject pronouns are often omitted when the verb already makes the subject clear.

So both are natural:

• Eu vou cortar a pera...
• Vou cortar a pera...

Because vou clearly means I am going, the listener already knows the subject is I.

Including Eu can add emphasis, clarity, or contrast. For example:

• Eu vou cortar a pera, e você vai espremer a laranja.

So in your sentence, Eu is correct, but not required.

Portuguese uses definite articles much more often than English does.

Here:

• a pera = the pear
• o abacaxi = the pineapple
• a laranja = the orange

Even when English might just say pear, pineapple, or orange, Portuguese often prefers the article, especially with specific objects in a sentence.

In this sentence, the speaker seems to be talking about particular fruits they are about to prepare, so the definite articles sound very natural.

Because nouns in Portuguese have grammatical gender.

• pera is feminine, so it takes a
• abacaxi is masculine, so it takes o
• laranja is feminine, so it takes a

This gender is grammatical, not biological. You often just have to learn the noun together with its article:

• a pera
• o abacaxi
• a laranja

That is a very good habit for learners.

Because the two nouns have different genders:

• a pera = feminine
• o abacaxi = masculine

Since the articles must match each noun, you repeat them.

So:

• a pera e o abacaxi = correct

If both nouns had the same gender, Portuguese sometimes still repeats the article, and sometimes not, depending on style and clarity. But here repetition is necessary because a cannot apply to abacaxi, and o cannot apply to pera.

Depois means afterwards, then, or later.

In this sentence:

• ..., e depois vou espremer a laranja...
• ..., and then I’m going to squeeze the orange...

It shows sequence: first one action, then another.

Very common time-order words include:

• primeiro = first
• depois = then/afterwards
• em seguida = next
• finalmente = finally

So depois helps organize the actions clearly.

Because espremer means to squeeze, which is the natural action for getting juice from an orange.

So:

• cortar a laranja = cut the orange
• espremer a laranja = squeeze the orange

If the goal is making juice, espremer is the more logical and idiomatic verb.

You might cut the orange first, but the juice comes from squeezing it.

Para means to, in order to, or for in a purpose sense.

So:

• para fazer suco = to make juice / in order to make juice

This is a very common Portuguese structure:

• para comer = to eat
• para beber = to drink
• para estudar = to study
• para fazer suco = to make juice

It explains the purpose of the previous action.

Both can be possible, but they mean slightly different things.

• fazer suco = make juice, make some juice, do juice-making in general
• fazer o suco = make the juice, a specific juice already known in context

In your sentence, fazer suco sounds more general and natural: the person is squeezing the orange in order to make juice.

If there were a specific juice already being discussed, o suco could make sense:

• Vou espremer a laranja para fazer o suco que prometi.

But in everyday speech, fazer suco is very normal.

Yes. In Brazil, suco is the normal everyday word for juice.

Examples:

• suco de laranja = orange juice
• suco de abacaxi = pineapple juice
• suco de uva = grape juice

So fazer suco is a very natural phrase in Brazilian Portuguese.

The comma helps separate two coordinated actions and makes the sentence easier to read.

• Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi, e depois vou espremer a laranja...

It is not unusual to use a comma here because the sentence is a bit longer and depois introduces the next step.

In shorter sentences, people may sometimes leave it out, especially informally. But with this structure, the comma is perfectly fine and helps show the pause between actions.

Good question. In modern spelling, the fruit is written pera.

Older spelling used pêra with a circumflex, but that accent was removed by spelling reforms.

So today:

• pera = correct modern spelling

You may still see pêra in older texts or materials, but current standard Portuguese uses pera.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

• Eu ≈ eh-oo / often more like yoo quickly
• vou ≈ voh or voo depending on accent
• cortar ≈ kor-TAR
• a pera ≈ a PEH-ra
• o abacaxi ≈ oo a-ba-ka-SHEE
• depois ≈ deh-POYS
• espremer ≈ es-preh-MEHR
• a laranja ≈ a la-RAN-zha or la-RAN-ja, depending on accent
• para fazer suco ≈ PA-ra fa-ZEHR SOO-koo

A few useful notes for Brazilian Portuguese:

• Final r in infinitives like cortar, espremer, fazer is often softened in many accents.
• x in abacaxi sounds like sh.
• j in laranja sounds like the s in measure.

You do not need perfect pronunciation right away, but these are good sounds to notice.

Yes, that can be understood, but repeating vou is more complete and natural in many contexts.

Compare:

• Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi, e depois vou espremer a laranja.
• Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi, e depois espremer a laranja.

The first version clearly marks both future actions. The second sounds more compressed, almost like a shortened plan or list of actions.

In normal speech, repeating vou is very common and often sounds smoother.

Yes. Depending on the tone, you could also say:

• e então = and then
• em seguida = next
• depois disso = after that

Examples:

• Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi, e então vou espremer a laranja...
• Eu vou cortar a pera e o abacaxi; em seguida, vou espremer a laranja...

But depois is one of the simplest and most common choices.