Word
Como queres pagar?
Meaning
How do you want to pay?
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Como queres pagar?
What does como mean in this sentence?
Why isn't there a word for "do" in the Portuguese sentence?
Where is the word for "you"?
In Portuguese, the subject pronoun is usually left out because the verb ending gives it away. The verb queres is conjugated for tu (informal "you"), so adding the word tu is unnecessary.
Why is pagar not conjugated?
When you have two verbs acting together, like "want to pay", only the first verb gets conjugated. Queres changes to match "you", while the second verb, pagar (to pay), stays in its basic, unconjugated dictionary form (the infinitive).