Word
Queres sair hoje à noite?
Meaning
Do you want to go out tonight?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Queres sair hoje à noite?
hoje
today
à
at the (fem. sg.) / to the (fem. sg.)
a noite
the night
querer
to want
Questions & Answers about Queres sair hoje à noite?
Why is sair in its original dictionary form?
Where is the word for 'you' in this sentence?
In Portuguese, you can usually drop the subject pronoun if the verb makes it obvious who is doing the action. The ending of queres tells us it is the informal 'you' (tu). You could say Tu queres sair, but dropping the tu is much more common and sounds very natural.
Why is 'tonight' translated as hoje à noite?
Portuguese does not have a single exact word for 'tonight'. Instead, you say hoje (today) plus à noite (at night), literally meaning 'today at night'.
What does the backwards accent on the à in à noite mean?
The word à with a grave accent is a contraction. It combines the preposition a (at/in) and the feminine word for 'the', which is also a. So à noite literally means 'at the night'. The accent is just a visual clue that those two identical little words crashed together into one.