Breakdown of Eles vão verificar o estado da encomenda assim que chegar ao armazém.
eles
they (m)
do
of the / from the (do, da, dos, das)
ao
to the / at the (m.sg; f.sg à, m.pl aos, f.pl às)
ir
to go
chegar
to arrive
a encomenda
the parcel
verificar
to check
assim que
as soon as
o estado
the status
o armazém
the warehouse
Questions & Answers about Eles vão verificar o estado da encomenda assim que chegar ao armazém.
Why is chegar in the future subjunctive here?
The phrase assim que (as soon as) is a trigger for the future subjunctive when you are talking about an action that has not happened yet. Because the package arriving at the warehouse is a future event, we must use the future subjunctive.
Since chegar is the future subjunctive, why does it look exactly like the plain infinitive?
For all regular verbs, the future subjunctive forms are completely identical to the personal infinitive forms. Since the subject of this action is the package (a encomenda, which acts as 'it'), we use the third-person singular form. This form takes no extra ending, leaving it identical to the basic infinitive chegar.
Who or what is the subject of chegar? Is it eles?
Why do we say ao armazém instead of no armazém?
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