Questions & Answers about Eu trabalho aqui desde janeiro.
Why does the Portuguese sentence use the present tense (trabalho) when the English translation says "have worked"?
In Portuguese, when an action started in the past and is still happening right now, you use the simple present tense with desde (since). English uses a past tense structure ("have worked"), but translating that literally into Portuguese wouldn't be correct here because you are still working there today.
Why isn't janeiro capitalized?
Could I use de instead of desde here to mean "from January"?
Not quite. While de can sometimes translate to "from", desde specifically means "since" a certain point in time. Because the action is still ongoing, you need desde to show that the action started in January and continues right up to the present.
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