A eletricista com quem a Ana falou também conhece alguém que repara fugas de água.

In European Portuguese, it is very common to put the definite article before people’s first names:

• a Ana
• o João
• a Maria

So a Ana falou simply means Ana spoke.

This is much more common in Portugal than in English, where we normally do not say the Ana. In Portuguese, the article does not usually make the name sound strange; it is just part of normal usage in many contexts.

Yes, in this sentence a eletricista refers to a female electrician.

The noun eletricista often has the same form for both masculine and feminine, so the article shows the gender:

• o eletricista = the male electrician
• a eletricista = the female electrician

This is common with many profession nouns in Portuguese.

Com quem means with whom.

The verb falar com means to speak with / to talk to, so when you turn that into a relative clause, the preposition com must stay:

• A Ana falou com a eletricista.
• A eletricista com quem a Ana falou...

This is similar to formal English the electrician with whom Ana spoke.

In everyday English, people often prefer the electrician Ana spoke to, but Portuguese normally keeps the preposition in front of quem here.

Because the relative pronoun refers to a person.

• quem = who / whom, used for people, especially after a preposition
• que = that / who / which, very common, but after a preposition in careful standard Portuguese, quem is very natural when referring to people

So:

• a pessoa com quem falei = the person I spoke with
• a mesa em que pus o livro = the table on which I put the book

With people, com quem is the standard and very natural choice.

Falou is the pretérito perfeito of falar. It is used for a completed action in the past.

So a Ana falou means Ana spoke / talked at some specific point or on some specific occasion.

If you used falava, that would suggest something more ongoing, habitual, or backgrounded:

• falou = spoke, did speak
• falava = was speaking, used to speak

Here the sentence is about one completed conversation, so falou is the natural choice.

Também means also / too.

Here it applies to conhece:

• A eletricista ... também conhece alguém...
• The electrician ... also knows someone...

It suggests that this electrician has some additional useful connection or ability. In context, maybe she is not only an electrician, but she also knows someone who repairs water leaks.

Portuguese word order with também is fairly flexible, but this position is very natural.

Because alguém means someone, which is grammatically singular.

So the verb in the relative clause is singular too:

• alguém que repara = someone who repairs

Not:

• alguém que reparam

Even though someone could refer to any person, grammatically it is still singular.

Yes, reparar can mean to notice, but it can also mean to repair.

That is an important point, because the verb has more than one meaning depending on context.

In this sentence:

• repara fugas de água

it clearly means repairs or fixes, because the object is water leaks.

Examples:

• Reparei no erro. = I noticed the mistake.
• Ele repara computadores. = He repairs computers.

In European Portuguese, reparar for to repair is very normal.

Fugas de água means water leaks.

Word by word:

• fugas = leaks / escapes
• de água = of water

So it refers to leaks in plumbing, pipes, taps, etc.

A native English speaker may expect something like vazamentos, but fuga de água is a very normal European Portuguese way to express this idea.

Portuguese often uses the plural in a general sense where English might use singular or plural depending on style.

So:

• repara fugas de água = repairs water leaks / does leak repairs

The plural sounds natural because it refers to that kind of problem in general, not necessarily to one specific leak.

You could also encounter singular in a more specific context, for example if there is one identified leak.

It attaches to alguém.

So the structure is:

• A eletricista
  com quem a Ana falou
  também conhece alguém
  que repara fugas de água

In other words:

1. the electrician
2. with whom Ana spoke
3. also knows someone
4. who repairs water leaks

So que repara fugas de água describes someone, not the electrician.

Yes. That is a very close, literal translation.

A more natural everyday English version might be:

• The electrician Ana spoke to also knows someone who fixes water leaks.

Both reflect the same Portuguese structure, but the first one mirrors the grammar more closely.

It is not extremely formal, but it is definitely a careful, standard structure.

Com quem is perfectly normal and correct in both speech and writing. It may sound slightly more polished than some more colloquial alternatives, but it is not unnatural.

So a learner should recognise it as very useful standard Portuguese, especially in European Portuguese.

Normally, no. Portuguese does not usually strand the preposition the way English does.

English:

• the electrician Ana spoke to

Portuguese:

• a eletricista com quem a Ana falou

The preposition stays before the relative pronoun. That is one of the key structural differences English speakers need to get used to.