O advogado chegou agora.

Portuguese often uses the definite article before a noun where English might not focus on it as much. O advogado means the lawyer.

You can sometimes say just advogado in certain contexts, but in a normal standalone sentence like this, o advogado sounds natural and complete.

• o = the for a masculine singular noun
• advogado = lawyer

In this sentence, you can tell it is masculine because it uses the article o.

• o advogado = the male lawyer or the lawyer when masculine grammar is being used
• a advogada = the female lawyer

So the noun changes depending on the gender:

• advogado = male lawyer
• advogada = female lawyer

Chegou is the simple past form of the verb chegar (to arrive).

It is:

• 3rd person singular
• used for he/she/it arrived, or you arrived in formal você, or with a noun like o advogado

So:

• chegar = to arrive
• chegou = arrived

Portuguese often leaves out subject pronouns when the subject is already clear.

Here, the subject is explicitly given as o advogado, so there is no need to add ele.

• O advogado chegou agora. = natural
• Ele chegou agora. = also possible, but now he is the subject instead of the lawyer

Since the noun is already there, adding ele would usually be unnecessary.

Agora usually means now, but in sentences like this, it often means just now or has just in natural English.

So although the literal pieces are:

• chegou = arrived
• agora = now

the overall idea is often:

• The lawyer just arrived.

That is a very common use of agora in Brazilian Portuguese.

Portuguese and English do not always express recent actions in the same way.

In English, we often say:

• He has just arrived.

In Brazilian Portuguese, a very common way to express that same idea is:

• Ele chegou agora.

So Portuguese uses the simple past plus agora, where English often prefers the present perfect plus just.

This is a translation difference, not a grammar mistake.

Yes, sometimes, but chegou agora is the most natural order here.

Common possibilities include:

• O advogado chegou agora. = the most natural
• Agora o advogado chegou. = possible, but it sounds more marked or contrastive depending on context

In ordinary speech, O advogado chegou agora is the best basic pattern to learn.

In Brazilian Portuguese, chegou is pronounced approximately like sheh-GOH.

A rough guide:

• che sounds like she
• gou has a stressed goh sound

The stress is on the last syllable: che-GOU.

Also, the ch in Brazilian Portuguese usually sounds like sh.

Usually, yes. Chegar means to arrive and is commonly used when someone reaches a destination or appears somewhere.

Examples:

• Ele chegou em casa. = He arrived home.
• Ela chegou cedo. = She arrived early.
• O advogado chegou agora. = The lawyer just arrived.

So here it means the lawyer has just gotten here or just reached the place being talked about.

Because the sentence does not say where the lawyer arrived. It only says that the arrival happened now / just now.

If you want to include a destination, Portuguese normally uses a preposition such as a or, in everyday Brazilian speech, often em:

• O advogado chegou ao escritório. = The lawyer arrived at the office.
• O advogado chegou em casa. = The lawyer arrived home.

But in O advogado chegou agora, there is no destination mentioned, so no preposition is needed.

Not in natural English. While chegar is to arrive, the best English translation here is usually:

• The lawyer just arrived.

A more literal version like The lawyer arrived now is understandable, but it sounds unnatural in English. So learners should focus on the natural equivalent, not a word-for-word translation.

It can correspond to both lawyer and attorney in English, depending on context.

In many learning contexts, lawyer is the safest basic translation. But in real life, the exact English choice can depend on the legal system and situation.

So:

• advogado = lawyer
• sometimes also attorney, depending on context