Questions & Answers about É com a rapariga que eu me vou embora.
Why is the preposition com placed right after É instead of at the end of the sentence?
In Portuguese, you can never leave a preposition stranded at the end of a sentence. When using a cleft sentence to emphasize who you are doing something with, the preposition must move to the front, right after the verb É. You cannot say É a rapariga que eu me vou embora com; it must be É com a rapariga que (literally "It is with the girl that").
Why is the pronoun me placed before the verb vou instead of after it?
The relative pronoun que acts as a magnet (an attractor), forcing the reflexive pronoun me to come before the verb instead of hyphenated after it. If this were a standard sentence without que, you would use the normal order and say Eu vou-me embora.
Why do we need the word me here at all?
The expression for "to leave" or "to go away" is the reflexive verb ir-se embora. While ir on its own just means "to go" (usually to a specific destination), adding the reflexive pronoun changes the meaning to leaving a place generally. Since the subject is eu, the pronoun becomes me.
In English we can say "It's the girl I'm leaving with." Can we drop the word que in Portuguese too?