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Chegas quando?

Chegas quando?
You arrive when?
From Lesson 125:Perguntas com preposição (De quem...?)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Breakdown of Chegas quando?

quando
when
chegar
to arrive

Questions & Answers about Chegas quando?

Why is quando at the end of the sentence instead of the beginning?
Question words like quando (when) often go at the end of a sentence in everyday Portuguese conversation. You can absolutely say Quando chegas?, but putting the question word at the end sounds very natural and casual.
Why does it use the present tense chegas if it asks about a future arrival?
In Portuguese, you frequently use the present tense to talk about future events that are already planned or happening soon. This is much more common in daily speech than using the actual future tense.
Where is the word for "you" in this sentence?
The verb ending does the work for you. The -s ending in chegas is specifically for tu (the informal "you"). Because the verb makes it obvious who is doing the action, the pronoun tu is usually left out.
How would I ask this formally, like to someone I do not know well?
Since chegas is the informal tu form, you would change it to the formal você form by dropping the "s". The formal version is Chega quando?.

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