Questions & Answers about É caro viajar em agosto.
Why do we use é instead of está here?
The adjective caro is masculine. What noun is it matching?
It is actually describing the action of traveling (viajar). Whenever an adjective describes an infinitive verb or a general concept rather than a specific noun, it automatically defaults to the masculine singular form.
Where is the word for 'It' in É caro?
Portuguese doesn't use 'dummy' subject pronouns like 'it' for general statements. You simply use the third-person singular form of the verb, so 'It is' translates directly to just É.
Is it a typo that agosto starts with a lowercase letter?
No! Unlike in English, months of the year, days of the week, and seasons are not capitalized in Portuguese unless they appear at the very beginning of a sentence.