O carro está fora da garagem.

O is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

• o carro = the car
• carro is a masculine noun in Portuguese, so it takes o, not a

If you wanted a car instead of the car, you would usually say um carro.

Because the two nouns have different grammatical genders:

• carro is masculine
• garagem is feminine

So:

• o carro = the car
• a garagem = the garage

In the sentence, garagem appears inside da garagem, where da = de + a. The a there is the feminine article for garagem.

Portuguese has two main verbs for to be: ser and estar.

Here, está is used because the sentence describes a location or position:

• O carro está fora da garagem. = the car is outside the garage

For location, Portuguese normally uses estar, not ser.

Compare:

• O carro está fora da garagem. = location
• O carro é vermelho. = characteristic

So a native English speaker often needs to remember: when saying where something is, use estar.

Está is the third-person singular form of estar in the present tense.

So it matches o carro, which is singular:

• eu estou = I am
• você/ele/ela está = you/he/she is
• o carro está = the car is

The accent mark in está is important in writing.

Here fora means outside.

In this sentence, it works with de:

• fora de = outside of

So:

• fora da garagem = outside the garage

Even though you do not see de by itself, it is still there inside da:

• fora de + a garagem → fora da garagem

Because Portuguese usually contracts de + a into da.

So:

• de + a = da
• de + o = do
• de + as = das
• de + os = dos

That is why:

• fora de a garagem is not the normal form
• fora da garagem is the correct natural form

This kind of contraction is extremely common in Portuguese.

Normally, no, not in this sentence.

The most natural form is:

• fora da garagem

Portuguese often uses the definite article where English may or may not use the. With a specific garage, the article is expected.

Saying fora de garagem would sound incomplete or unnatural in standard usage here.

It describes location, not movement.

The sentence says where the car is. It does not say the car is moving out.

• O carro está fora da garagem. = the car is outside the garage

If you wanted movement, you would usually use something like:

• O carro está saindo da garagem. = the car is coming out of the garage
• O carro saiu da garagem. = the car left/came out of the garage

This is a useful distinction, because English out of can sometimes suggest movement, but here the Portuguese sentence is simply about position.

Yes, but the original order is the most neutral and common:

• O carro está fora da garagem.

You might also hear or see:

• Fora da garagem, está o carro.

But that sounds more marked, literary, or emphatic. In normal conversation, the standard order is best.

For learners, it is safest to keep:

• subject + estar + location

In standard Portuguese, that sounds unnatural in this context.

Normally you would say:

• O carro está fora da garagem.

Portuguese generally uses articles more often than English with countable nouns. So where English might sometimes say car is outside, Portuguese usually wants o carro or um carro, depending on whether it is definite or indefinite.

Sometimes, yes, but the meaning or tone changes a little.

• O carro está fora da garagem. = the car is outside the garage right now
• O carro fica fora da garagem. = the car stays/is usually kept outside the garage, or that is where it is located

So:

• está is more about the present state or current situation
• fica can suggest a habitual location or a less immediate description

Both can be correct, but they are not always interchangeable.

In Brazilian Portuguese, garagem is roughly pronounced like:

• ga-ra-ZHEN

A few helpful notes:

• the g in the last syllable sounds like the s in measure
• the final em often sounds nasal in Brazilian Portuguese
• the stress is on the last syllable: ga-ra-GEM

You do not need to pronounce it exactly like English spelling would suggest.

Yes, sometimes fora can appear on its own, depending on the structure.

For example:

• O carro está fora. = the car is outside

But when you specify what it is outside of, you normally use fora de:

• fora da garagem
• fora de casa
• fora do carro

So in your sentence, fora da garagem is the expected pattern.