Word
A nossa família mora em Lisboa.
Meaning
Our family lives in Lisbon.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of A nossa família mora em Lisboa.
Lisboa
Lisbon
em
in / on / at
morar
to live
nosso
our (m/f/pl: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas)
Questions & Answers about A nossa família mora em Lisboa.
Why is there an 'A' at the very beginning of the sentence?
In European Portuguese, it is almost always mandatory to put a definite article (words like o or a, meaning 'the') before a possessive word (like nossa). Since família is a feminine noun, we use a. You are literally saying 'the our family' (a nossa família).
Does nossa change depending on the gender of the people speaking?
No, it only changes based on the word it describes. Possessives must match the gender (masculine or feminine) and number (singular or plural) of the thing being owned. Since família is a feminine, singular word, we use nossa, even if the people saying 'our' are all men.
Since a family is made up of multiple people, why is the verb mora in the singular form?
Why is it just em Lisboa and not na Lisboa?