Learn Portuguese (Portugal): Há um café muito bom na esquina onde a rua termina. - There is a very good cafe on the corner where the street ends.

Há um café muito bom na esquina onde a rua termina.

There is a very good cafe on the corner where the street ends.

Breakdown of Há um café muito bom na esquina onde a rua termina.

muito

much / very

a / an / some (all forms)

haver

to be (there is / there are)

bom

good

Questions & Answers about Há um café muito bom na esquina onde a rua termina.

Why do we use onde here, and what does it connect?

The word onde is a relative pronoun meaning 'where'. In this sentence, it refers back to the physical location just mentioned, a esquina (the corner), linking it to the action that happens there (a rua termina).

Could I use em que instead of onde in this sentence?

Yes! When talking about physical places, onde and em que (meaning 'in which' or 'on which') are often interchangeable. You could perfectly say na esquina em que a rua termina, though onde is very common and natural for physical locations.

If there were two good cafes, would Há change to a plural form?

No, it stays exactly the same. The verb Há comes from the verb haver and means both 'there is' and 'there are'. It is an impersonal verb, meaning it only has this one form in the present tense, no matter how many things you are talking about.

Why does 'on the corner' translate to na esquina? Doesn't na usually mean 'in the'?

The Portuguese preposition em covers 'in', 'on', and 'at' in English. Because esquina is a feminine noun, em combines with the word for 'the' (a) to become na. So here, na esquina is the natural way to say 'on the corner' or 'at the corner'.