O fornecimento de energia voltou agora.

The electricity supply returned now.

Breakdown of O fornecimento de energia voltou agora.

• agora: now
• voltar: to return
• o fornecimento de energia: the supply of electricity

Questions & Answers about O fornecimento de energia voltou agora.

What does fornecimento de energia mean exactly?

Fornecimento means supply or provision.
So fornecimento de energia literally means supply of energy/electricity.

In this sentence, it refers to the electric power supply, so in natural English it often corresponds to things like:

• the power supply
• the electricity supply
• the power

In everyday Brazilian Portuguese, people often say simply a energia voltou to mean the power came back.

Why is it O fornecimento and not A fornecimento?

Because fornecimento is a masculine noun in Portuguese, so it takes o:

• o fornecimento = the supply

This is something learners usually just have to memorize with the noun. A useful pattern is that many nouns ending in -mento are masculine:

• o pagamento
• o documento
• o fornecimento

Why is there de in fornecimento de energia?