Breakdown of Teremos otimizado o trânsito da metrópole para o novo veículo?
de
of / from / by (means of transport) / wearing (attire)
novo
new / young
ter
to have
a
to / at (direction)
para
to / for
o trânsito
the traffic
o
him/it (m)
a metrópole
the metropolis
o veículo
the vehicle
otimizar
to optimize
Questions & Answers about Teremos otimizado o trânsito da metrópole para o novo veículo?
Why use teremos otimizado here instead of the simple future otimizaremos?
Teremos otimizado is the Futuro Composto do Indicativo (Future Perfect). It is used to ask if the optimization process will already be completed by a certain point in the future (perhaps by the time the new vehicle is launched). The simple future (otimizaremos) would mean 'Will we optimize it?' rather than 'Will we have optimized it?'.
The lesson mentions forming this tense with either ter or haver. Could I say haveremos otimizado?
Grammatically, yes, haveremos otimizado is perfectly correct and means the exact same thing. However, in modern everyday European Portuguese, the auxiliary verb ter is much more commonly used than haver for compound tenses. You will mostly encounter the haver forms in formal writing or literature.
Does the past participle otimizado need to agree in gender or number with o trânsito or a metrópole?
There is no subject pronoun like nós here. How do we know it is a question without changing the word order?
In Portuguese, yes/no questions are formed simply by changing your spoken intonation (raising your pitch at the end) and adding a question mark, rather than swapping the verb and subject like in English. The pronoun nós (we) is dropped because the -emos ending of teremos already makes the subject obvious. If you wanted to include it for emphasis, it would simply be Nós teremos otimizado...? without any inversion.
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