Learn Portuguese (Portugal): De acordo com o jornal, vai chover. - According to the paper, it is going to rain.

De acordo com o jornal, vai chover.

According to the paper, it is going to rain.

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Questions & Answers about De acordo com o jornal, vai chover.

Why is there no word for "it" before vai chover?

In English, we need a dummy subject to say "it is going to rain." In Portuguese, weather verbs like chover (to rain) are impersonal and never take a subject pronoun. You simply use the third-person singular form of the verb, which is why it is just vai chover.

Could I use segundo instead of the phrase de acordo com?

Yes, you definitely can! Segundo o jornal means exactly the same thing as de acordo com o jornal (according to the newspaper). Both are very common in European Portuguese, though segundo is a bit shorter.

Why does the sentence use vai chover instead of the future tense choverá?

Vai chover uses the verb ir (to go) plus the infinitive to form the near future, just like "going to rain" in English. In everyday spoken Portuguese, this structure is much more natural and common than the formal future tense choverá, though both are grammatically correct.

Does acordo have anything to do with the verb acordar (to wake up)?

They look identical, but they have different meanings here. The noun acordo means an agreement. It comes from another meaning of the verb acordar, which is "to agree." So the fixed phrase de acordo com literally translates to "in agreement with."