Você gosta de natureza?

In most of Brazil, você is the normal everyday way to say you. It is usually neutral, not especially formal.

For more formal situations, people often use o senhor or a senhora. In some regions of Brazil, tu is also common.

Because você uses the third-person singular verb form in Brazilian Portuguese.

So:

• eu gosto = I like
• você gosta = you like
• ele/ela gosta = he/she likes

This is one of the first things that feels strange to English speakers: você means you, but the verb behaves like he/she.

Because the full verb pattern is gostar de.

Portuguese says:

• gostar de café = to like coffee
• gostar de música = to like music
• gostar de natureza = to like nature

So unlike English, where you just say like something, Portuguese normally requires de after gostar.

Here natureza is being used in a general sense, like nature as a concept.

In that kind of usage, Portuguese can omit the article:

• gostar de natureza = like nature in general

That said, in real Brazilian Portuguese, you may also hear gostar da natureza. Portuguese often uses articles more than English does, so both forms can appear depending on style, context, and speaker preference.

Because de + a = da in Portuguese.

So:

• de natureza = without an article
• de a natureza becomes da natureza

This kind of contraction is very common:

• de + o = do
• de + a = da
• de + os = dos
• de + as = das

Since gostar needs de, these contractions show up a lot.

Yes. In conversation, Brazilians often leave out the subject pronoun when the context is clear.

So both are possible:

• Você gosta de natureza?
• Gosta de natureza?

The version without você can sound more casual and conversational.

Portuguese usually does not use do/does like English, and it usually does not change the word order in simple yes/no questions.

Compare:

• Você gosta de natureza. = You like nature.
• Você gosta de natureza? = Do you like nature?

The difference is mainly shown by intonation in speech and by the question mark in writing.

A useful rough pronunciation is:

vo-SEH GOS-ta dji na-tu-RE-za?

A few notes:

• você is stressed on the last syllable: vo-SEH
• gosta is stressed on GOS-
• de is often pronounced like dji in many Brazilian accents
• natureza is stressed on -re-

A common Brazilian pronunciation is approximately:

[voˈse ˈgɔstɐ dʒi natuˈɾezɐ]

The ê shows how the word is pronounced.

It helps indicate that:

• the stress is on the last syllable
• the vowel is a closed e sound

So você sounds roughly like vo-SEH, not VO-se.

Some natural answers are:

• Sim, gosto. = Yes, I do.
• Sim, gosto muito. = Yes, I like it a lot.
• Não, não gosto muito. = No, I don’t like it much.
• Adoro a natureza. = I love nature.

If you repeat the thing you like with gostar, keep de:

• Gosto de natureza.
• Gosto da natureza.

Both are possible, depending on how general or definite you want it to sound.