Breakdown of A escola cuja professora de geografia mora no meu bairro fica perto da praça.
morar
to live
meu
my
de
of
perto de
near
Questions & Answers about A escola cuja professora de geografia mora no meu bairro fica perto da praça.
What does cuja do in this sentence?
Cuja is a possessive relative pronoun. It connects a escola to professora de geografia and shows a relationship of possession or association:
- a escola
- cuja professora de geografia... = whose geography teacher...
So the structure is basically:
- A escola cuja professora de geografia mora no meu bairro...
- The school whose geography teacher lives in my neighborhood...
This is one of the main uses of cujo / cuja / cujos / cujas in Portuguese.
Why is it cuja and not cujo?