Minha filha gosta de me mostrar como o bebê tenta engatinhar no cercado.

Because filha is a feminine noun, so the possessive has to agree with it:

• meu filho = my son
• minha filha = my daughter

In Portuguese, possessives change for gender and number:

• meu / minha = my
• meus / minhas = my (plural)

So minha matches filha.

The verb gostar normally requires the preposition de before what is liked.

Examples:

• Eu gosto de café. = I like coffee.
• Ela gosta de nadar. = She likes swimming / likes to swim.
• Minha filha gosta de me mostrar... = My daughter likes to show me...

So gostar de is the standard pattern, and English speakers usually need to memorize it as one unit.

Here, me means to me or me, depending on how you analyze it in English.

• mostrar = to show
• me mostrar = to show me

So:

• Minha filha gosta de me mostrar... = My daughter likes to show me...

Portuguese often uses an object pronoun before the infinitive:

• me mostrar = show me
• te dizer = tell you
• nos ajudar = help us

This is very natural in Brazilian Portuguese.

Yes, grammatically mostrar-me is possible, but in Brazilian Portuguese, me mostrar is much more natural in everyday speech.

So:

• de me mostrar = common, natural in Brazil
• de mostrar-me = correct, but more formal or less conversational

For a learner focused on Brazilian Portuguese, me mostrar is the form you should expect to hear most often.

Portuguese uses definite articles much more often than English does.

So while English often says:

• the baby or just baby depending on context,

Portuguese commonly says:

• o bebê

Here, o bebê means the baby. It sounds completely normal and natural.

Bebê means baby.

The accent mark in bebê shows the stressed syllable and helps distinguish pronunciation. In Brazilian Portuguese, it is pronounced roughly like beh-BEH, with the stress on the last syllable.

The written accent is important because Portuguese spelling often indicates where the stress falls.

Here, como means how.

So:

• mostrar como o bebê tenta engatinhar = to show how the baby tries to crawl

This structure is common:

• Ela me mostrou como fazer isso. = She showed me how to do that.
• Ele explicou como funciona. = He explained how it works.

So como introduces the way something happens or is done.

Because tentar + infinitive means to try to do something.

• tenta = tries
• engatinhar = to crawl

So:

• o bebê tenta engatinhar = the baby tries to crawl

If you said:

• o bebê engatinha that would mean:
• the baby crawls / is crawling (depending on context)

Using tenta engatinhar emphasizes that the baby is attempting to crawl, maybe not fully succeeding yet.

Engatinhar means to crawl, especially in the sense of a baby crawling on hands and knees.

It is most commonly used for babies, but it can also sometimes be used more broadly depending on context.

For learners, the safest association is:

• engatinhar = to crawl like a baby

No cercado is a contraction:

• em + o = no

So:

• no cercado = in the playpen / in the enclosure

The noun cercado literally comes from the idea of something enclosed or fenced in. In this sentence, it most naturally refers to a baby playpen.

Other common contractions:

• na = em + a
• nos = em + os
• nas = em + as

Yes. Cercado can more generally mean an enclosed area, pen, or fenced space.

But because the sentence talks about o bebê trying to crawl, the most natural interpretation is playpen.

So the exact translation depends on context:

• with a baby: usually playpen
• in other contexts: possibly enclosure, pen, or fenced area

In Portuguese, the simple present often covers both:

• a habitual action
• a general present situation
• sometimes even something happening around now

So:

• Minha filha gosta de me mostrar... can mean:
• My daughter likes to show me... or
• My daughter enjoys showing me...

And:

• o bebê tenta engatinhar can mean:
• the baby tries to crawl or, in context,
• the baby is trying to crawl

Portuguese often uses the simple present where English might choose either simple present or a progressive form.

It can correspond to either one in English.

• likes to show me
• likes showing me

Both are good ways to understand it.

The Portuguese infinitive structure gostar de + infinitive is very common, and English may translate it in more than one natural way.

The baby.

The structure is:

• Minha filha = subject of gosta
• o bebê = subject of tenta

So the sentence breaks down like this:

• My daughter likes
• to show me
• how the baby tries to crawl in the playpen

Even though the sentence is long, o bebê clearly belongs with tenta engatinhar.

Yes, that is a great strategy. You can divide it like this:

• Minha filha = my daughter
• gosta de = likes
• me mostrar = to show me
• como = how
• o bebê = the baby
• tenta engatinhar = tries to crawl
• no cercado = in the playpen

So the whole structure is:

• My daughter
• likes
• to show me
• how the baby tries to crawl in the playpen

Breaking Portuguese sentences into chunks like this is often much more helpful than translating word by word.