Word
Depois de amanhã é sábado.
Meaning
The day after tomorrow is Saturday.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Depois de amanhã é sábado.
ser
to be
o sábado
the Saturday
depois de amanhã
the day after tomorrow
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Questions & Answers about Depois de amanhã é sábado.
Why is there a de in depois de amanhã?
The word depois means "after", but when it is followed by a time or event to say "after [something]", it requires the preposition de. So, depois de amanhã literally translates to "after of tomorrow", which is how Portuguese expresses "the day after tomorrow".
Why do we use é (from the verb ser) for a day of the week? Doesn't the day change?
Why isn't sábado capitalized?
Unlike in English, days of the week and months of the year are not capitalized in Portuguese unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.
Should we use an article before sábado, like é o sábado?
No. While Portuguese normally uses definite articles with days of the week (for example, saying no sábado to mean "on Saturday"), you drop the article when you are simply stating what day it is using the verb ser.