Pode rastrear a remessa hoje.

It can, but not always.

Pode is the 3rd person singular of poder (to be able to / can / may). In Portuguese, the subject is often omitted, so pode could mean:

• you can (with você, formal or neutral depending on context)
• he can
• she can
• one can
• sometimes the customer can, the user can, etc., if that is clear from context

So in this sentence, you need context to know exactly who can track the shipment today.

Because Portuguese often drops subject pronouns when they are not needed.

Instead of saying:

• Você pode rastrear a remessa hoje.

Portuguese very often just says:

• Pode rastrear a remessa hoje.

This is normal in both speech and writing when the subject is already understood from the situation.

Because after poder, Portuguese normally uses the infinitive of the main verb.

So the pattern is:

• poder + infinitive

Examples:

• Pode rastrear = can track
• Pode ver = can see
• Pode pagar = can pay

This is similar to English:

• can track
• not can tracks

So rastrear stays in the infinitive after pode.

It can mean either, depending on context.

With poder, the idea can be:

• ability: can
• possibility: can
• permission: may / can

In a sentence like Pode rastrear a remessa hoje, the most likely meaning is:

• You can track the shipment today or
• You may track the shipment today

In everyday English, can is usually the most natural translation, but Portuguese pode does cover both ideas.

It is understandable, but it may sound a bit formal, logistics-related, or business-like.

In Portugal, for an ordinary package or online order, people often say:

• encomenda = package / order / parcel

So depending on context, a more natural everyday version might be:

• Pode rastrear a encomenda hoje.

If the context is shipping, freight, or logistics, remessa is fine. But for a normal customer message, encomenda is often more idiomatic in European Portuguese.

Because Portuguese usually uses the definite article when talking about a specific known thing.

Here, a remessa means the shipment: a particular shipment already known from the context.

So:

• a remessa = the shipment

If you said just remessa, it would sound less natural in a normal sentence, unless you were using a more telegraphic style, like a label, heading, or system message.

Hoje is fairly flexible, but some positions sound more natural than others.

Common possibilities:

• Pode rastrear a remessa hoje.
  Neutral and natural.

• Hoje, pode rastrear a remessa.
  Puts more emphasis on today.

• Pode hoje rastrear a remessa.
  Grammatically possible, but less natural in everyday speech.

So the original position is a very normal one.

As written, without punctuation, it is usually read as a statement:

• Pode rastrear a remessa hoje.
  = You can track the shipment today.

But in Portuguese, yes/no questions often use the same word order as statements. So if you add a question mark and the right intonation, it becomes:

• Pode rastrear a remessa hoje?
  = Can you track the shipment today? / Can it be tracked today?

So punctuation and context matter a lot.

A few useful points for European Portuguese:

• The r at the beginning is usually a guttural r.
• The s before t sounds like sh.
• The stress falls on the last syllable: ras-tre-AR.

So rastrear sounds roughly like:

• rash-treh-AR

And in the full sentence, some other pronunciation points are:

• pode: the final e is very reduced
• hoje: the j sounds like the s in measure
• unstressed vowels are often reduced in European Portuguese

So the sentence may sound more compressed than an English speaker expects.

They might, but it depends on the context.

The sentence is grammatical and understandable, but in Portugal a more natural customer-facing version might be:

• Já pode rastrear a sua encomenda.
• Pode acompanhar a sua encomenda hoje.
• Já é possível rastrear a encomenda.

Why?

• encomenda is often more everyday than remessa
• acompanhar is also common in tracking contexts
• já often appears in service messages meaning now / already

So the original sentence is fine, but it may sound a little like a direct translation or a system-generated message rather than the most idiomatic European Portuguese phrasing.