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O que fazes a seguir ao trabalho?

O que fazes a seguir ao trabalho?
What do you do right after work?
From Lesson 114:O tempo e a ordem (a seguir, em breve)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O que fazes a seguir ao trabalho?

Why is it O que instead of just Que for "what"?
In Portuguese, o que is the standard way to say "what" when asking a question like this. You can think of it literally as "the what". While you might occasionally hear just que, using o que is much more common and natural for these types of questions.
Why doesn't the sentence have a helper word for the question, like "do" in "do you do"?
English uses the helper verb "do" in questions (What do you do?), but Portuguese does not. The single verb fazes simply means "you do". In Portuguese, you just use the normal verb and change the tone of your voice to show it is a question.
Why use a seguir a instead of depois de for "after"?
Both mean "after", but a seguir a usually implies "immediately after" or "next". Asking O que fazes a seguir ao trabalho? sounds specifically like "What are you doing right after work?" whereas depois do trabalho could mean any time later that evening.
Where does the word ao come from before trabalho?
It is a combination of two words. The phrase a seguir a ends with the preposition a. Because trabalho is a masculine noun, it needs the masculine "the", which is o. When a and o sit next to each other, they shrink into the single word ao.

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