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Visto o casaco porque está frio.

Visto o casaco porque está frio.
I put on my coat because it is cold.
From Lesson 149:A roupa (vestir, as cuecas)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Visto o casaco porque está frio.

Why does visto mean "I put on"? Doesn't the verb vestir mean "to wear"?
Vestir is used for both "to put on" clothes and "to wear" clothes. It is also an irregular verb: even though the infinitive is spelled with an "e", the "I" form changes to visto.
The English translation says "my coat", but the Portuguese sentence uses o casaco (the coat). Where is the word for "my"?
In Portuguese, you usually drop possessive words (like meu) when talking about your own clothes or body parts. Since you are the one putting it on, o casaco is naturally understood as your coat.
Why do we use está for "it is cold" instead of é?
We use está (from the verb estar) because the weather being cold is a temporary state. If you used é (from ser), it would imply that the location is permanently and fundamentally cold.
If está frio means "it is cold", is that also how I would say "I am cold"?
No! For the weather or a room, you use estar (like está frio). But to say that you personally feel cold, you use the verb ter (to have): tenho frio (literally "I have cold").

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