Word
Eu preciso cancelar o agendamento.
Meaning
I need to cancel the appointment.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Breakdown of Eu preciso cancelar o agendamento.
eu
I
precisar
to need
cancelar o agendamento
to cancel the appointment
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Questions & Answers about Eu preciso cancelar o agendamento.
Do I have to say Eu, or can I just say Preciso cancelar o agendamento?
You can usually omit Eu in Portuguese and just say Preciso cancelar o agendamento.
Portuguese often drops subject pronouns when the verb ending already makes the subject clear. Here, preciso clearly means I need.
- Eu preciso cancelar o agendamento. = more explicit, slightly more emphatic
- Preciso cancelar o agendamento. = very natural in everyday speech
Including Eu is not wrong at all; it just adds emphasis or clarity.
Why is it preciso?
Preciso is the 1st person singular form of the verb precisar = to need.
The present tense goes like this:
- eu preciso = I need
- você / ele / ela precisa = you / he / she needs
- nós precisamos = we need
- vocês / eles / elas precisam = you all / they need
So in Eu preciso cancelar..., preciso matches eu.
A common beginner confusion is that preciso can also be an adjective meaning precise / accurate in other contexts, but here it is clearly the verb precisar.
Why is cancelar not conjugated?