Breakdown of Os recursos humanos vão ligar ao candidato que recomendaste.
a
to / at (direction)
ir
to go
ligar
to call
recomendar
to recommend
que
who / which / that (relative)
os recursos humanos
the human resources
o candidato
the candidate
Questions & Answers about Os recursos humanos vão ligar ao candidato que recomendaste.
Why use que here instead of a specific word for "who", since we are talking about a person?
In Portuguese, the relative pronoun que is very versatile. It can translate to "that", "which", or "who/whom". Even though the candidate is a person, que is the most common and natural way to connect these two parts of the sentence.
Why is it ao candidato instead of just o candidato?
The verb ligar (when meaning "to call on the phone") requires the preposition a (to) before the person being called. Because you are calling the candidate, the preposition a combines with the masculine definite article o (the) to form the contraction ao.
I don't see the word for "you" in the second half of the sentence. How do we know who did the recommending?
Why is the verb vão (they go) used instead of vai (it goes) for "Human resources"?
Even though we often think of a Human Resources department as a single entity, the phrase Os recursos humanos is grammatically plural. Because of this, it needs the plural "they" form of the verb, which is vão, to form the future tense "are going to".
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