Breakdown of Concentras-te no teu mestrado?
em
in / on / at
teu
your (informal, m/f/pl: teu, tua, teus, tuas)
o mestrado
the master's degree
concentrar-se
to concentrate
Questions & Answers about Concentras-te no teu mestrado?
Why do we use no to mean on in this sentence?
The verb concentrar-se always requires the preposition em to show what you are concentrating on. In this sentence, em merges with the masculine definite article o to become no.
Why is there a -te attached to the verb concentras?
If no is a contraction of em plus o, why do we need the article o before teu?
In European Portuguese, possessives like teu almost always take a definite article before them. The preposition em combines with this article o to form no, so you are literally saying on the your master's degree.
How would I ask this same question formally?
To speak formally, you change the verb to the você form and use the reflexive pronoun se. The possessive also changes to seu, making the full sentence: Concentra-se no seu mestrado?
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