Breakdown of O peixe grelhado é o prato do dia.
ser
to be
de
of / from / by (means of transport) / wearing (attire)
o peixe
the fish
o dia
the day
o prato
the plate / the dish
grelhado
grilled
Questions & Answers about O peixe grelhado é o prato do dia.
Since the dish of the day changes daily, why do we use é (from the permanent verb ser) instead of a form of estar?
How do I know whether to use grelhado or grelhada since peixe ends in the letter e?
Nouns ending in the letter e do not follow a strict gender rule, so you have to learn them as you go. However, you can see that peixe is masculine here because it uses the masculine word for the in front of it: o peixe. Since the noun is masculine, the adjective describing it must match, giving us grelhado.
Why does the adjective grelhado come after peixe instead of before it?
In Portuguese, descriptive adjectives (words that tell you about a physical characteristic, like color, shape, or how food is cooked) almost always come directly after the noun they describe.
Can prato mean both the physical plate and the meal itself?
Exactly! Just like the word dish in English, prato can refer to the physical ceramic plate you eat from, or the prepared meal itself, as seen in the common restaurant phrase prato do dia.
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