O envio chegou hoje.

Envio means shipment, dispatch, or sometimes sending.

In Portugal, envio is a perfectly normal word, especially in:

• postal or delivery contexts
• online shopping
• formal or business language

Depending on the situation, Portuguese speakers might also use:

• encomenda = parcel / order
• entrega = delivery
• remessa = shipment (more formal or technical)

So O envio chegou hoje sounds natural, especially if you are talking about something that was sent.

Portuguese often uses the definite article where English might not.

So:

• o envio = the shipment
• um envio = a shipment

Using o usually means the speaker and listener already know which shipment is being discussed.

This is very common in Portuguese. Articles are used more often than in English.

Chegou is the pretérito perfeito (simple past) of the verb chegar = to arrive.

Here is the verb:

• eu cheguei = I arrived
• tu chegaste = you arrived
• ele/ela/você chegou = he/she/you arrived

So chegou means arrived.

In this sentence, the subject is o envio, which is singular, so the verb is also singular:

• O envio chegou hoje.

Because the subject is singular:

• o envio = the shipment

So the verb must agree with it:

• O envio chegou hoje. = singular subject + singular verb

If the subject were plural, the verb would change:

• Os envios chegaram hoje. = The shipments arrived today.

Portuguese usually does not need a separate subject pronoun like it when the noun itself is already there.

In English, you might say:

• The shipment arrived today.

Portuguese does the same:

• O envio chegou hoje.

There is no need to add a separate word for it because o envio is already the subject.

Yes. Hoje means today, and Portuguese allows some flexibility in word order.

The most neutral version here is:

• O envio chegou hoje.

You could also hear:

• Hoje o envio chegou.
• Hoje chegou o envio.

These are all possible, but they can sound slightly different in emphasis:

• O envio chegou hoje = neutral statement
• Hoje o envio chegou = emphasis on today
• Hoje chegou o envio = also emphasizes today, and can sound a bit more stylistic or contextual

For a learner, O envio chegou hoje is the safest standard pattern.

Yes, but the meaning changes slightly.

• o envio focuses on the shipment/item that was sent
• a entrega focuses more on the delivery

So:

• O envio chegou hoje = The shipment arrived today.
• A entrega chegou hoje = The delivery arrived today.

In everyday usage, people may choose one or the other depending on what they want to emphasize.
If you are talking about a parcel from an online order, a encomenda chegou hoje is also very common in Portugal.

Yes. Chegar is very commonly used for things like:

• letters
• parcels
• shipments
• orders
• people
• transport

Examples:

• A carta chegou ontem. = The letter arrived yesterday.
• A encomenda chegou cedo. = The parcel arrived early.

So using chegar with envio is completely natural.

In European Portuguese, chegou is approximately pronounced like:

• shuh-GOH (very rough English guide)

A few details:

• ch in Portuguese is usually like English sh
• the final -ou sounds like oh
• the unstressed e in che- is reduced, especially in European Portuguese

So it does not sound like English cheg-ow.

In European Portuguese, hoje is approximately:

• OH-zhuh or OH-zh (rough guide)

Notes:

• j sounds like the s in measure
• the final e is usually very weak in European Portuguese

So hoje sounds softer and more reduced than many learners expect.

Yes, in natural speech they often flow together smoothly.

Because chegou ends in a vowel sound and hoje begins with a vowel sound, the two words may be linked in fast speech:

• chegou hoje

You do not need to force a pause between them. Native speakers often pronounce the phrase as one smooth unit.

It is neutral and natural. It can work in:

• everyday conversation
• customer service
• messages about deliveries
• formal written contexts

It is not especially slangy, and it is not overly formal either.

Usually envio suggests something that has been sent, often physically, but context matters.

It can refer to:

• a shipment
• a dispatch
• a sending/submission

In some contexts, especially business or administrative language, envio can also refer to something non-physical, like:

• a document submission
• a file sending
• an email sending

But in a sentence like O envio chegou hoje, many learners will most naturally understand it as a physical shipment unless the context says otherwise.

You add não before the verb:

• O envio não chegou hoje. = The shipment didn’t arrive today.

This is the normal position for não in Portuguese:

• subject + não
  • verb + other information

In Portuguese, you can often keep the same word order and just use intonation:

• O envio chegou hoje? = Did the shipment arrive today?

You could also ask more explicitly:

• O envio chegou hoje, não chegou? = The shipment arrived today, didn’t it?
• Quando chegou o envio? = When did the shipment arrive?

Portuguese does not usually need do/does/did the way English does.