Breakdown of A camisa branca fica bem com a gravata.
branco
white
a camisa
the shirt
ficar bem
to suit, to look good on
a gravata
the necktie
Questions & Answers about A camisa branca fica bem com a gravata.
Why does this sentence use fica to mean goes? I thought ficar meant to stay.
While ficar often means to stay, it is heavily used in Portuguese to describe how something looks or its end result. When talking about clothes, ficar bem is the most natural way to say an outfit looks good or that pieces go well together.
I always mix up camisa and camisola. Which one is this?
camisa is specifically a button-up shirt, usually with a collar like a dress shirt. A sweater or jersey is a camisola, and a t-shirt is simply called a t-shirt.
Could I use the verb combinar instead of ficar bem to say they match?
Why do we need the article a in com a gravata?
In Portuguese, definite articles like a are used more often than in English. Even if you are talking about wearing a white shirt with a tie in a general sense, Portuguese often uses the definite article to refer to the clothing item, so com a gravata sounds much more natural than just com gravata.
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