Vocês deram um perfume muito caro ao vosso pai?
Did you give a very expensive perfume to your father?
Breakdown of Vocês deram um perfume muito caro ao vosso pai?
vocês
you (pl)
o pai
the father / the parents
muito
much / very
um
a / an / some (all forms)
caro
expensive
a
to / at (direction)
o
him/it (m)
dar
to give
vosso
your (plural, of vocês; forms: vosso, vossa, vossos, vossas)
o perfume
the perfume
Questions & Answers about Vocês deram um perfume muito caro ao vosso pai?
Why is the verb deram instead of "daram"?
Dar (to give) is an irregular verb. Even though it is an -ar verb, its past tense (Pretérito Perfeito Simples) endings actually look more like those of -er or -ir verbs. The correct past tense form for vocês is deram.
Why use vosso for "your" if the subject is vocês?
While seu is technically the possessive word for vocês, it also means "his", "her", or "their". To avoid confusion, European Portuguese speakers usually prefer vosso to mean "your" when speaking to a plural group.
Where does the word ao come from in ao vosso pai?
Ao is a contraction of the preposition a (to) and the masculine definite article o (the). You give something to someone, which gives us the a. Because European Portuguese usually puts definite articles before possessives (o vosso pai), a + o combines to make ao.
Could I change the word order to um muito caro perfume?
No, because in Portuguese, describing adjectives like caro (expensive) almost always come after the noun. Since muito (very) is tied to the adjective, the entire phrase muito caro must stay together after perfume.
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