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No meu tempo livre eu leio.

No meu tempo livre eu leio.
In my free time I read.
From Lesson 62:Near future (ir)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about No meu tempo livre eu leio.

Why does the sentence start with No instead of just Em for 'In'?
No is a contraction of the preposition em (in) and the masculine singular article o (the). In European Portuguese, you usually include 'the' before a possessive word like meu (my). So literally, the sentence starts with 'In the my'.
Why is it tempo livre instead of livre tempo?
In Portuguese, adjectives like livre (free) almost always come after the noun they describe, which is tempo (time) in this case.
The verb is leio. Is ler (to read) an irregular verb?
Yes. While regular verbs ending in '-er' just drop the ending and add '-o' for the eu (I) form, ler changes its stem to become leio.
How would I use the near future tense to say 'In my free time I am going to read'?
You would replace the present tense leio with the near future structure: the eu form of ir (to go), which is vou, plus the unchanged action verb ler (to read). The new sentence becomes: No meu tempo livre eu vou ler.

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