Word
Não preciso do teu bilhete.
Meaning
I do not need your (sg) ticket.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Não preciso do teu bilhete.
não
not / no
teu
your (informal, m/f/pl: teu, tua, teus, tuas)
precisar de
to need
o bilhete
the ticket
Questions & Answers about Não preciso do teu bilhete.
Where is the word for "I" in this sentence?
Why does the sentence use do instead of just de after the verb?
The verb precisar (to need) requires the preposition de. However, in European Portuguese, we almost always put a "the" (definite article) before possessive words like teu. When de meets o (the masculine "the"), they combine to form the contraction do.
Wait, why is there a "the" before "your"? In English we just say "your ticket".
That is a common pattern in European Portuguese! Before possessive words like teu (your), you usually include the definite article. Since bilhete is a masculine word, we use o, giving us o teu bilhete (literally "the your ticket"). Combined with the de from precisar, it becomes do teu bilhete.
Why is it teu and not tua?