Word
Para economizar dinheiro, eu vou aproveitar a promoção do mercado.
Meaning
To save money, I am going to take advantage of the sale at the supermarket.
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Breakdown of Para economizar dinheiro, eu vou aproveitar a promoção do mercado.
eu
I
para
to
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to go (future auxiliary)
do
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Questions & Answers about Para economizar dinheiro, eu vou aproveitar a promoção do mercado.
What does para economizar dinheiro mean grammatically?
It is a purpose expression: para + infinitive.
Here, para economizar dinheiro means to save money or in order to save money.
A very common pattern in Portuguese is:
- para + infinitive = in order to ...
Examples:
- Para aprender português, eu estudo todo dia. = To learn Portuguese, I study every day.
- Para descansar, ela foi para casa. = To rest, she went home.
So in your sentence, this first part explains why the speaker will do the action.
Why is it economizar dinheiro and not something like economizar o dinheiro?
Because dinheiro is being used in a general sense here: money in general, not a specific set of money.
So:
- economizar dinheiro = save money
- economizar o dinheiro = save the money, meaning some specific money already known in context
This works a lot like English:
- I want to save money. = general
- I want to save the money. = specific money
So economizar dinheiro is the normal, natural choice here.
Why is there a comma after ?