Breakdown of A médica está meio enjoada depois de comer meia tarte.
a médica
the doctor (f)
estar
to be (temporary / location)
comer
to eat
depois de
after
a tarte
the pie / the tart
meio
somewhat / kind of
enjoado
nauseous / sick (to one's stomach)
Questions & Answers about A médica está meio enjoada depois de comer meia tarte.
Why does this sentence use meio for the doctor, but meia for the pie, even though both are feminine?
This highlights the exact difference between the adverb and the adjective. Before enjoada, meio acts as an adverb meaning 'kind of' or 'a bit', and adverbs are invariable (they don't change their endings). Before tarte, meia acts as an adjective meaning 'half', and adjectives must agree with the feminine noun they describe.
Is it a grammatical mistake if I say a médica está meia enjoada?
Why is the verb comer in the infinitive here instead of being conjugated?
The phrase depois de ends with a preposition, which requires the following verb to be in the infinitive. Because the subject doing the eating is the same as the subject feeling nauseous (a médica), we just use the standard, uninflected infinitive comer.
I've seen 'pie' translated as torta in other contexts. Why use tarte here?
In European Portuguese, tarte is the standard word for a pie or tart, whether sweet or savory. If you order a torta in Portugal, you will usually get a Swiss roll (a rolled sponge cake with filling). However, in Brazilian Portuguese, the word for pie is indeed torta.
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