O profissional responsável vai revisar o relatório antes da reunião.

The responsible professional is going to review the report before the meeting.

Breakdown of O profissional responsável vai revisar o relatório antes da reunião.

• ir: to go (future auxiliary)
• antes: before
• da: of the
• a reunião: the meeting

Questions & Answers about O profissional responsável vai revisar o relatório antes da reunião.

Why does the sentence start with O?

O is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

In O profissional responsável..., it matches profissional, which here is treated as a masculine singular noun: the professional.

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English, so the professional responsible is naturally expressed as o profissional responsável.

What does profissional mean here?

Profissional means professional or staff member / qualified worker, depending on context.

In this sentence, it refers to the person in charge or the responsible professional/person. It is a noun here, not just an adjective.

Also, profissional has the same form for masculine and feminine:

• o profissional = the male professional
• a profissional = the female professional

Why is responsável after profissional instead of before it?

In Portuguese, adjectives often come after the noun.

So:

• o profissional responsável = the responsible professional / the professional in charge

This word order is very normal in Portuguese. Putting responsável after the noun sounds natural and standard.

Also, in this sentence, responsável can mean not just responsible in a general personality sense, but more specifically the one responsible / the one in charge.