Se tudo depender do tempo, talvez a gente viaje só amanhã.

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Breakdown of Se tudo depender do tempo, talvez a gente viaje só amanhã.

• a gente: we
• talvez: maybe
• se: if

Questions & Answers about Se tudo depender do tempo, talvez a gente viaje só amanhã.

Why is it depender after se, not depende?

Because this is a future condition: if everything depends on the weather in the sense of if it turns out to depend on the weather.

After se in this kind of future if clause, Portuguese normally uses the future subjunctive. For the verb depender, the ele/ela/você form of the future subjunctive is depender.

So here, depender is not the infinitive in function, even though it looks the same.

• Se tudo depender do tempo... = If everything depends / ends up depending on the weather...
• Se tudo depende do tempo... sounds more like a general present statement.

What does se mean here?

Here, se means if.

It introduces a condition:

• Se tudo depender do tempo... = If everything depends on the weather...

This is one of the most common uses of se in Portuguese.

Does tempo mean time or weather here?