Breakdown of Nós não faríamos esse pedido na receção.
não
not / no
nós
we
em
in / on / at
esse
that (esse, essa, esses, essas)
fazer
to do
o
him/it (m)
a receção
the reception
o pedido
the request
Questions & Answers about Nós não faríamos esse pedido na receção.
Why is the verb faríamos and not fazeríamos?
It is the conditional tense of the irregular verb fazer (to do or make) for nós (we). Regular verbs form the conditional by adding endings directly to the infinitive. However, fazer, dizer, and trazer are irregular: they drop the -ze- from the infinitive first. So fazer becomes the stem far-, and we add the nós ending -íamos to get faríamos.
Why use esse instead of aquele to say 'that'?
Can fazer um pedido mean anything else besides 'make a request'?
Yes! While it translates perfectly to 'make a request' here, fazer um pedido is also the standard everyday phrase used to mean 'to place an order' at a restaurant, cafe, or store.
Why do we say na receção instead of just em receção?
In Portuguese, the preposition em (in, at, or on) almost always combines with the definite article before a noun. Since receção is a feminine noun, we need the feminine article a. They merge together: em plus a becomes na.
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