Breakdown of O fornecedor, cuja loja conhecemos, vai expedir a caixa dentro de um mês.
um
a / an / some (all forms)
a loja
the store
o mês
the month
ir
to go
a caixa
the box
conhecer
to meet / to get to know / discover
dentro de
inside / within (a timeframe)
cujo
whose (cujo, cuja, cujos, cujas)
o fornecedor
the supplier
expedir
to dispatch
Questions & Answers about O fornecedor, cuja loja conhecemos, vai expedir a caixa dentro de um mês.
Why use dentro de here instead of daqui a?
Both phrases talk about the future, but they mean slightly different things. Dentro de um mês means the box will be dispatched sometime within the next month (it could happen tomorrow, next week, or on the last day). If the sentence used daqui a um mês, it would mean the dispatch would happen exactly one month from today.
Why is it cuja and not cujo, since the supplier (o fornecedor) is masculine?
The word for whose (cujo) is special because it changes to match the gender and number of the thing being owned, not the owner. Since the store (a loja) is feminine and singular, we use cuja. If we were talking about his cars (os carros), it would be cujos carros, even though the supplier is a single masculine entity.
Is expedir the standard word to use for sending something?
Expedir specifically means to dispatch, forward, or ship goods, making it perfect for a formal or business context like dealing with a supplier (um fornecedor). For everyday situations, like sending a letter or a birthday gift to a friend, you would usually just use enviar or mandar.
Could conhecemos also mean we met in the past?
Yes, it could! The form conhecemos is exactly the same in both the present tense (we know / we are familiar with) and the simple past tense (we met / we got to know). Here, the present tense makes the most sense because we currently know the store, but you often have to rely on context clues to tell which tense is being used.
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