Breakdown of Nós vamos criar a campanha para ajudar a cidade.
nós
we
ir
to go
para
to / for
a cidade
the city
Questions & Answers about Nós vamos criar a campanha para ajudar a cidade.
Why do we need the word para before ajudar?
In English, you can just say 'to help' to express a goal. In Portuguese, when you mean 'in order to help', you must use the preposition para followed by the infinitive verb. If you leave out para, the sentence sounds broken, like 'We are going to create the campaign help the city'.
Could I use por instead of para here?
No. A major rule in Portuguese is to use para (never por) before an infinitive verb when you are expressing a purpose or end goal. Here, para ajudar acts just like the English phrase 'in order to help'.
Is it normal to say vamos criar instead of using a future tense verb?
Yes, it is the most common way! In everyday Portuguese, people express the future using the present tense of ir (to go) plus the infinitive of the action verb. Vamos criar (we are going to create) sounds much more natural in conversation than the formal future tense.