Word
Nós grelhamos peixe na praia.
Meaning
We grill fish at the beach.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Nós grelhamos peixe na praia.
nós
we
na
in the / on the / at the (f.sg)
o peixe
the fish
a praia
the beach
Questions & Answers about Nós grelhamos peixe na praia.
Does grelhamos mean "we grill" or "we grilled"?
It means "we grill" (present tense). In European Portuguese, the past tense of -ar verbs adds an accent mark to the letter a, like grelhámos, which also changes the pronunciation to a more open sound. Because there is no accent here, we know it is happening in the present.
Do I always have to include the word Nós?
Why isn't there an article like o before peixe?
Why is "at the beach" translated as na praia instead of à praia?
The word na is a contraction of the preposition em (in/at/on) and the feminine article a (the). You use em to talk about a stationary location where an action is happening. You would use the preposition a (which combines with the article to make à praia) if you were talking about movement towards a destination, like going to the beach.