Você pode me dar carona até a escola amanhã?

Can you give me a ride to the school tomorrow?

Breakdown of Você pode me dar carona até a escola amanhã?

• você: you
• amanhã: tomorrow
• me: me
• poder: can

Questions & Answers about Você pode me dar carona até a escola amanhã?

Why does the sentence start with você? Is it necessary?

Você means you and is the usual singular you in Brazilian Portuguese.

It is not always strictly necessary, because Portuguese often allows the subject to be omitted. So you could also hear:

Pode me dar carona até a escola amanhã?

However, including você can make the sentence clearer, more direct, or slightly more natural depending on context. Since pode could refer to você, leaving você in is very common in Brazilian Portuguese.

Why is it pode and not podes?

Because você takes the third-person singular verb form in Portuguese.

So:

• tu podes = you can
• você pode = you can

In most of Brazil, você pode is much more common than tu podes, although some regions do use tu.

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