Learn Portuguese (Portugal): Eu como sempre a sopa.

Eu como sempre a sopa.

I always eat the soup.

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Questions & Answers about Eu como sempre a sopa.

How do we get the word como from the verb comer (to eat)?

Comer is a regular verb ending in -er. To form the eu (I) version, you drop the -er ending to find the stem (com-) and add -o. This gives us como. This pattern works for almost all regular -er verbs!

I have seen the word como used to mean 'how' or 'like'. Is this the same word?

They are spelled and pronounced exactly the same, but they are completely different words. Here, como is the verb comer conjugated for eu. You can tell them apart by the context: if it is about food or follows a subject pronoun like eu, it is the verb.

Why does sempre (always) come after the verb instead of before it?

In English, we usually put frequency words before the verb, like 'I always eat'. In Portuguese, adverbs like sempre generally go right after the verb. So the literal word order here is 'I eat always the soup'.

Why does the sentence use a sopa (the soup) if it translates to eating soup in general?