Breakdown of Peço cópia autenticada da certidão de casamento e reconhecimento de firma.
e
and
pedir
to ask
da
of the
a certidão de casamento
the marriage certificate
Questions & Answers about Peço cópia autenticada da certidão de casamento e reconhecimento de firma.
Why does the sentence start with Peço? Is the subject eu just missing?
Yes. Peço is the 1st person singular of pedir: I request / I ask for.
Portuguese often drops the subject pronoun when the verb ending already makes the subject clear, so Eu peço becomes simply Peço.
In this kind of formal or bureaucratic sentence, Peço works a lot like a performative verb in English:
- Peço... = I request...
It sounds more formal than everyday speech.
Why is there no uma before cópia autenticada?
Because this is a very compressed, formal style, common in requests, forms, and administrative language.
A fuller version would be:
Leaving out articles like uma can make the sentence sound more like a checklist or official request. It is natural in bureaucratic Portuguese, even though in everyday speech people would more often include the article.
Why is it cópia autenticada and not cópia autenticado?