Eu vou falar com você à noite.

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Breakdown of Eu vou falar com você à noite.

• você: you
• com: with
• ir: to go (future auxiliary)

Questions & Answers about Eu vou falar com você à noite.

Why is Eu included? Can Portuguese drop the subject pronoun here?

Yes. Portuguese often allows the subject pronoun to be omitted, so Vou falar com você à noite is also perfectly natural.

Eu is included here for one of these common reasons:

• to make the subject extra clear
• to add emphasis, like I will talk to you tonight
• simply because speakers sometimes say it even when it is not necessary

In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, both versions are common:

• Eu vou falar com você à noite.
• Vou falar com você à noite.

What does vou falar mean grammatically?

Vou falar is the very common ir + infinitive future construction.

• vou = I go / I am going from the verb ir
• falar = to speak / to talk

Together, vou falar means I am going to speak / I will speak.

This is one of the most common ways to talk about the future in Brazilian Portuguese. It often sounds more natural in conversation than the simple future form.

Could I say falarei instead of vou falar?