Questions & Answers about As flores morrem sem água.
Why does the Portuguese sentence start with As when the English translation just says "Flowers"?
In Portuguese, when you talk about things in a general sense like flowers in general, you usually must use the definite article. English drops the word "the" in these cases, but Portuguese keeps it.
Why is the plural of flor spelled flores?
Which subject is the verb morrem matching with here?
It matches with As flores (the flowers), which acts as a "they" (elas) subject. Because morrer (to die) is a regular verb ending in -er, its "they" form in the present tense ends in -em.
Why isn't there an article before água? I expected sem a água.
You can often leave out the article after the preposition sem (without) when talking about an uncountable noun like water in a general way. Adding a would change the meaning to "without the water".
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