“Shall we go to the park tomorrow?” in Portuguese

When to use it

Use it to invite a friend for a walk or an outing the next day. It is friendly and informal in Brazil.

The sentence in English: “Shall we go to the park tomorrow?”

"Shall we go to the park tomorrow?" is a suggestion. "Shall we…?" is a polite way to propose doing something together. "Go" follows without "to", "to the park" says the destination, and "tomorrow" says when.

Shall

auxiliary verbshall · tense: present · modal verb; "Shall we…?" makes a suggestion

we

pronounpersonal pronoun, first person plural

go

verbgo · form: base form (infinitive without "to") · main verb after "shall"

to

prepositionpreposition of direction

the

determinerdefinite article

park

nounnoun

tomorrow

adverbadverb of time

The sentence in Portuguese: “Vamos ao parque amanhã?”

"Vamos ao parque amanhã?" uses "vamos", the "we" form of "ir" (to go), as an invitation. "Ao" is the contraction of the preposition "a" with the article "o". "Parque" is the park and "amanhã" means tomorrow.

Vamos

verbir · tense: present · mood: indicative · person: first · number: plural · "we go"; as a question it is an invitation: "shall we go?"

ao

contractioncontraction of "a" + "o": "to the"

parque

nounmasculine noun: "park"

amanhã

adverbadverb of time: "tomorrow"

What changes from one language to the other: English × Portuguese

Portuguese turns a simple statement, "vamos" (we go), into an invitation just with the question mark. English uses a special modal, "shall", or "let's". Portuguese also joins the preposition and the article into one word, "ao".

Example conversation