After-work drinks: Suggesting a drink after work

💬 Há means 'there is' or 'there are' and never changes: Há dois bares. The h is silent, so it sounds like (AH).

💬 Portuguese often drops the 'it'. Conheço alone means 'I know it', since the place is already understood. Conhecer is for knowing places and people, not facts.

💬 Gira is everyday slang in Portugal for 'nice' or 'cute', with giro for masculine nouns. Têm (with the hat) means 'they have', while tem means 'he/she has'.

🇵🇹 An esplanada is the outdoor seating of a café or bar. On a warm evening, Portuguese colleagues will almost always pick a spot with one.

💬 Às is a + as merged, used because hours are feminine plural. One o'clock is singular: à uma.

💬 Vamos means both 'we go' and 'let's go'. As a question it works like 'Shall we…?': Vamos jantar? "Shall we have dinner?"

🇵🇹 A very common, relaxed yes in Portugal. Depending on tone it can sound easygoing or a bit lukewarm, so say it warmly if you're keen.

💬 Portuguese puts o "the" before people's names in casual speech: o Pedro, a Ana.

💬 Words ending in -agem are feminine, so it's uma, not um. The ending is nasal and sounds roughly like (mə-SAH-zhãy).

💬 In Portugal, lhe "to him/her" attaches after the verb with a hyphen: mando-lhe. The present tense here covers 'I'll send', as it often does for near plans.

💬 Women say obrigada and men say obrigado, matching the speaker, not the listener. Pelo is por + o merged: 'for the'.

💬 Já usually means 'already', but in Até já it means 'very soon'. For later, say Até logo "See you later".