Word
Este percurso é longo?
Meaning
Is this route long?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Questions & Answers about Este percurso é longo?
Why is it é and not está here?
Because longo is being treated as a characteristic of the route itself, not a temporary condition.
- ser + adjective is commonly used for more inherent qualities: é longo, é curto, é difícil
- estar is usually for temporary states or conditions
So Este percurso é longo? sounds natural for asking whether the route is long in general.
Why is there no special word order for the question? Shouldn't it change like in English?
No. In Portuguese, yes/no questions are usually formed just by intonation and a question mark, not by changing the word order.
So:
The structure stays the same.
What does este mean here, and why not esse?