Word
O professor tem de reunir as autorizações.
Meaning
The teacher has to gather the authorizations.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O professor tem de reunir as autorizações.
o professor
the teacher (m)
ter de
to have to
a autorização
the authorization
reunir
to gather
Questions & Answers about O professor tem de reunir as autorizações.
This lesson focuses on the Personal Infinitive. Why is reunir in the normal, uninflected infinitive form here?
We only use the Personal Infinitive when the infinitive has a different subject from the main verb, or in impersonal expressions (like "It is important for us to..."). Here, O professor is the subject of both the main verb (tem) and the action of gathering (reunir), so the regular infinitive is exactly what we need.
I often see people use ter que to mean "have to". Why does this sentence use tem de?
In European Portuguese, ter de is the standard, grammatically preferred way to express a strong obligation or duty. You will definitely hear ter que in everyday speech, but ter de is considered more correct for writing and formal contexts.
Does reunir always mean to have a meeting?
It is the root of the word for "meeting" (a reunião), and when used with a reflexive pronoun (reunir-se) it means "to meet". However, its direct meaning is "to gather" or "to collect", which is how it is used here to talk about collecting the physical permission slips.
Just as a quick refresher, how do we form the plural for words like autorização?