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How to Say ‘For Saturday at 8 PM.’ in Portuguese

Para sábado às 20 horas.

PAH-rah SAH-bah-doh AH-sh VAYN-tee OH-rahsh

[PAH-rah SAH-bah-doh AH-sh VAYN-tee OH-rahsh]

💬 Usage Tip: Portuguese often uses the 24-hour clock in bookings, so 20 horas is a natural way to say 8 PM. In Portugal, unstressed vowels get reduced a lot, so horas may sound closer to (OH-rsh).

Phrase Breakdown

Para sábado

PAH-rah SAH-bah-doh

Words in this phrase

Para

[PAH-rah]

For

Used to indicate a purpose or target time.

Example

Quero reservar 'para' sábado.

I want to book 'for' Saturday.

sábado

[SAH-bah-doh]

Saturday

A day of the week following Friday.

Example

'Sábado' tem eventos culturais.

'Saturday' has cultural events.

Às 20 horas

AH-sh VAYN-tee OH-rahsh

Words in this phrase

às

[AH-sh]

Indicates a specific location or time.

Example

A reserva é 'às' nove horas.

The reservation is 'at' nine o'clock.

[VAYN-tee]

The number that follows nineteen.

Example

Chegaram em grupo de '20'.

They arrived in a group of '20'.

horas

[OH-rahsh]

hours

Unit of time equal to sixty minutes.

Example

Ficaram mais de três 'horas'.

They stayed over three 'hours'.

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