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A minha família não mora aqui.

A minha família não mora aqui.
My family does not live here.
From Lesson 19:My, your, and our (o meu, a nossa)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about A minha família não mora aqui.

Why is there an A before minha?
In European Portuguese, it is usually mandatory to put a definite article (like o or a, meaning "the") before a possessive word. Since família is a feminine noun, you use the feminine article a. Literally, the sentence is structured as "The my family".
Why use minha instead of meu?
Possessives in Portuguese must agree with the gender of the noun they describe, not the gender of the speaker. Because família is a feminine word, you use the feminine form minha ("my"), regardless of your own gender.
Since a family has multiple people, why does the verb use the singular mora instead of the plural moram?
Even though a family consists of many people, the word família itself is grammatically singular because it refers to one single group. Because of this, it uses the singular "he/she/it" form of the verb morar (to live), which is mora.
How do you translate the "does" part of "does not live"?
Portuguese doesn't use helper verbs like "do" or "does" to make a sentence negative. To say that someone "does not" do something, you simply put the word não directly before the main verb. So, "does not live" translates to just não mora.

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