Breakdown of Queres melhorar? Treina os músculos à terça-feira!
a terça-feira
the Tuesday
à
at the (fem. sg.) / to the (fem. sg.)
querer
to want
melhorar
to improve
Questions & Answers about Queres melhorar? Treina os músculos à terça-feira!
Why is it treina and not treinas since the speaker is talking to tu (you)?
Treina is an affirmative command (imperative). To tell someone you call tu to do something, you drop the s from the present tense tu form. So, tu treinas (you train) becomes the command treina (train!). Because the first sentence asks queres (the tu form of want), the command naturally stays in the tu form.
Why is it à terça-feira with the grave accent (à)?
To say you do something 'on' a certain day of the week, Portuguese uses the preposition a. Because terça-feira is a feminine noun, it requires the feminine article a (the). The preposition a and the article a merge together into the contraction à.
The sentence says à terça-feira (singular). Does this mean just next Tuesday, or every Tuesday?
Why is melhorar not conjugated?