Word
Tu queres pão?
Meaning
Do you want bread?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Tu queres pão?
What does tu mean, and when do I use it in European Portuguese?
Tu means you when speaking to one person in an informal or familiar way.
In Portugal, tu is very common with:
- friends
- family
- children
- people you know well
It takes its own verb forms, so you say:
- tu queres
- not tu quer
With strangers or in more formal situations, Portuguese may use você or other more formal ways of speaking, depending on the context and region.
Why is it tu queres and not tu quer?
Because the verb querer (to want) must agree with the subject.
For the present tense:
- eu quero = I want
- tu queres = you want
- ele/ela/você quer = he/she/you want
So with tu, the correct form is queres.
What verb is queres from?