A Ana põe cerejas na tigela com iogurte.

In European Portuguese, it is very common to use the definite article before a person’s name, so A Ana means Ana.

This does not mean the Ana in natural English. It is just a normal Portuguese pattern.

• A Ana = Ana
• O João = João

In some contexts, especially in more formal writing, the article may be omitted, but in everyday Portuguese from Portugal, using it is very normal.

Põe is the 3rd person singular of the verb pôr, which means to put.

So:

• eu ponho = I put
• tu pões = you put
• ele/ela põe = he/she puts

In A Ana põe cerejas..., põe means puts because the subject is A Ana.

This verb is irregular, so learners often need to memorize its forms.

Because Portuguese normally contracts em + a into na.

• em = in
• a = the
• em a → na

So:

• na tigela = in the bowl

This kind of contraction is very common in Portuguese:

• em + o = no
• em + a = na
• em + os = nos
• em + as = nas

Nouns in Portuguese have grammatical gender, and tigela is a feminine noun.

That is why it takes:

• a tigela = the bowl
• na tigela = in the bowl

This is grammatical gender, so it does not mean the bowl is biologically female. It is just part of how Portuguese nouns work.

Portuguese often leaves out the article when talking about things in a general or non-specific way.

So here:

• cerejas = cherries
• iogurte = yogurt

This can suggest some cherries and yogurt, not necessarily a specific previously mentioned set.

Compare:

• põe cerejas = puts cherries / some cherries
• põe as cerejas = puts the cherries

And:

• com iogurte = with yogurt
• com o iogurte = with the yogurt

In European Portuguese, põe has a nasal sound because of õ.

A rough guide is that it sounds a bit like poyn or poing, but with nasalization and without fully pronouncing a strong final ng sound like in English.

Important points:

• õ is nasal
• the written e is part of the diphthong
• the whole word is one syllable

If you are used to English sounds, the nasal vowel is probably the hardest part.

As written, com iogurte most naturally goes with the bowl:

• A Ana põe cerejas na tigela com iogurte.
• most likely: Ana puts cherries into the bowl with yogurt.

So the image is probably: there is a bowl containing yogurt, and Ana puts cherries into it.

However, Portuguese can sometimes be ambiguous here, just like English can be.

If you wanted to make with yogurt describe the cherries more clearly, you could rephrase, for example:

• A Ana põe cerejas com iogurte na tigela.

That would more strongly suggest cherries with yogurt are what she is putting in the bowl.

Yes. Colocar also means to put / to place.

So you could say:

• A Ana coloca cerejas na tigela com iogurte.

Both are correct, but there is a small difference in feel:

• pôr is very common and everyday
• colocar can sound a little more neutral, careful, or slightly more formal

In European Portuguese, pôr is extremely common in ordinary speech.

Yes, Portuguese often drops the subject pronoun when it is clear from the verb form or context.

But here the sentence uses the full noun phrase A Ana, which is perfectly normal because the speaker wants to identify who is doing the action.

For example:

• A Ana põe cerejas... = Ana puts cherries...
• Põe cerejas... = puts cherries... / she puts cherries... (only works if the context already makes the subject clear)

Portuguese drops subject pronouns very often, but it does not have to drop the subject when the subject is a name.

No, this is a very normal Portuguese word order:

• A Ana = subject
• põe = verb
• cerejas = direct object
• na tigela com iogurte = place / prepositional phrase

So the structure is basically:

Subject + Verb + Object + Place

That is one of the most common patterns in Portuguese, and it matches a very natural English order too.