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O hotel tem um elevador novo.

O hotel tem um elevador novo.
The hotel has a new lift.
From Lesson 121:A casa por fora (o elevador, a cave)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about O hotel tem um elevador novo.

Why does the adjective novo come after elevador?
In Portuguese, descriptive adjectives usually come after the noun they describe. Because of this rule, a new lift translates to um elevador novo.
How do you pronounce hotel? Is the first letter sounded?
The letter H is always completely silent at the beginning of a word in Portuguese. Also, an L at the end of a word like hotel makes a dark L sound that is very similar to a W or U in English.
How can I tell that elevador is a masculine noun?
Most words in Portuguese that end in -dor are masculine. Because elevador is masculine, it takes the masculine article um and the masculine adjective novo.
I learned that ter is sometimes used to describe states like being hungry. Does it just mean to possess here?
Yes, in this sentence tem simply means has in the sense of owning or possessing. While Portuguese does use the verb ter for physical states like ter fome to mean being hungry, its literal and most common meaning is to have, just as we see here.

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