Ontem o entregador trouxe o colchão novo, mas o guarda-roupa ainda não chegou.

Ontem means yesterday, and it is a time expression. Portuguese often puts time expressions at the beginning of the sentence to set the scene.

So:

• Ontem o entregador trouxe... = Yesterday the delivery person brought...

You could also say:

• O entregador trouxe o colchão novo ontem

That is also correct. Starting with ontem just gives the time first.

Each o is the masculine singular definite article, meaning the.

In this sentence:

• o entregador = the delivery person / the delivery man
• o colchão novo = the new mattress
• o guarda-roupa = the wardrobe

Portuguese uses definite articles more often than English does, so seeing several of them in one sentence is very normal.

Trouxe is the preterite form of trazer, which means to bring.

Here it is:

• eu trouxe = I brought
• ele/ela/você trouxe = he/she/you brought

So o entregador trouxe means the delivery person brought.

This verb is irregular, so it does not follow a simple pattern like falar → falou.

In Portuguese, adjectives usually come after the noun, so:

• colchão novo = new mattress

That is the most neutral and common order.

You may also see novo colchão, but putting the adjective before the noun can sound more literary, emphatic, or slightly different in tone. For a basic description, colchão novo is the expected choice.

No. In the first clause, the subject is o entregador.

Breakdown:

• o entregador = subject
• trouxe = verb
• o colchão novo = direct object

So the structure is:

• The delivery person brought the new mattress

In the second clause, the subject is different:

• o guarda-roupa = subject
• não chegou = did not arrive / has not arrived yet

Guarda-roupa usually means wardrobe, armoire, or sometimes closet, depending on context.

Literally, it comes from the idea of something that stores clothes:

• guardar = to keep / store
• roupa = clothes

But you should learn guarda-roupa as one fixed noun meaning a piece of furniture for clothes.

It is hyphenated because it is a fixed compound noun in Portuguese spelling.

So the correct form is:

• o guarda-roupa

This is just something to memorize as part of the word’s standard written form.

Good question. Even though roupa by itself is feminine:

• a roupa

the full compound noun is:

• o guarda-roupa

The gender of compound nouns is not always predictable from one part of the word. In this case, the whole word is simply masculine, and that is the form you need to memorize.

Ainda não chegou means:

• hasn’t arrived yet
• still hasn’t arrived

Here:

• ainda = still / yet
• não = not
• chegou = arrived

So mas o guarda-roupa ainda não chegou means the mattress already came, but the wardrobe is still missing at that point.

In Portuguese, não normally goes before the verb to make it negative.

So:

• chegou = arrived
• não chegou = did not arrive / has not arrived

That word order is standard and very important in Portuguese.

Portuguese uses chegar for to arrive.

So:

• o guarda-roupa chegou = the wardrobe arrived

Just like in English, the thing itself can be the subject of arrive. The wardrobe is not doing the delivery, of course; it is simply the thing that arrived.

Also, chegar is an intransitive verb here, which means it does not take a direct object.

Grammatically, entregador is masculine. In real usage, it often refers to a male delivery worker.

If the worker is female, you would usually say:

• entregadora

Sometimes people use more neutral wording depending on the situation, but entregador / entregadora is the normal everyday pair.

A rough Brazilian Portuguese guide:

• trouxe → roughly TROU-se
  • the x here sounds like s
• colchão → roughly col-SHÃO
  • the ão is nasal
• guarda-roupa → roughly GWAR-da HO-pa or GWAR-da RO-pa
  • the r sound varies by region

A few pronunciation notes:

• lh in colchão does not appear here, so do not pronounce it like Spanish ll
• ão is one of the classic nasal sounds in Portuguese
• in much of Brazil, word-initial r sounds somewhat like an English h, especially in roupa

Because mas means but, and it connects two full clauses:

• Ontem o entregador trouxe o colchão novo
• mas o guarda-roupa ainda não chegou

Using a comma before mas is standard Portuguese punctuation, just as English often uses a comma before but when joining two complete clauses.