Tu pagas o café com cartão?

Do you pay for coffee with a card?

Breakdown of Tu pagas o café com cartão?

• tu: you
• o café: the coffee
• com: with
• pagar: to pay

Questions & Answers about Tu pagas o café com cartão?

Why is tu used instead of você in this sentence?

In European Portuguese, tu is the standard 2nd‐person singular familiar pronoun when speaking with friends, family or people of the same age. Você exists but is more formal or even distant in Portugal. In Brazil, by contrast, você is the default informal “you,” and tu is regional.

Why is the verb pagar conjugated as pagas here?

Because the subject is tu (2nd‐person singular). The present‐tense conjugation of pagar for tu is pagas. If you addressed someone as você, you’d say você paga.

Conjugation chart (present):
• eu pago
• tu pagas
• ele/ela/você paga
• nós pagamos
• vocês pagam
• eles/elas pagam

Why isn’t there an auxiliary verb like “do” at the beginning of the question, and why doesn’t the word order change?

Unlike English, Portuguese forms yes/no questions by intonation alone. You keep the normal Subject-Verb-Object order (tu pagas o café com cartão) and simply raise your pitch at the end. No auxiliary verbs are needed.

Why is there a definite article o before café, instead of saying um café?