Learn how to ask about your possessions
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| Oi, meu nome é Paloma. Hi everybody! I’m Paloma. |
| Welcome to PortuguesePod101.com’s “Português em Três Minutos”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Portuguese. |
| In the last lesson, we learned how to talk about age using the verb ter, “to have.” |
| You can probably guess that ter can also be used to talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson. |
| Você tem um carro? “Do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] Você tem um carro? |
| Let’s take a closer look at this question. |
| Você, means “you”. You can see that ter has been conjugated to tem. |
| Um carro, means “a car” |
| So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question? |
| Just turn the verb ter into the 1st person—it’s really simple! You did it during the last lesson to talk about your age, remember? |
| “How old are you?” is Quantos anos você tem? |
| And we answered with Eu tenho... |
| So in this case, we go from Você tem um carro? to |
| Eu tenho um carro. “I have a car.” |
| [slowly] Eu tenho um carro. |
| So say, for example, that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Você tem uma caneta? Which is “Do you have a pen?” |
| If you only have a red pen, you can answer Eu só tenho uma caneta vermelha. “I only have a red pen.” |
| Okay, so now let’s look at the FORMAL way to ask someone if he or she has something. |
| Instead of você, you’ll say “o senhor” or “a senhora”, which mean “sir” or “madam”. For example... |
| O senhor tem um carro? “Sir, do you have a car?” |
| [slowly] O senhor tem um carro? |
| A senhora tem uma caneta? ”Madam, do you have a pen?” |
| [slowly] A senhora tem uma caneta? |
| Now it’s time for Paloma’s Point. |
| If you want to sound really natural when asking if someone has something, because you need to borrow it or you are looking for it in a store, you can use the words Será que. Here’s an example - |
| Será que você tem um lápis preto? This literally means “I wonder if you have a black pencil?” |
| You just add Será que at the beginning of the sentence. It makes the whole sentence sound like a question, and a little bit less direct. |
| In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs ser and estar, “to be”, and ter, “to have.” |
| Next time we’ll learn how to use these three verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”. |
| Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Portuguese, you just have to add one little word? |
| I'll be waiting to tell you more about it in the next Português em três minutos. |
| Até mais! |
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