Restaurant reservations Part 3 (Advanced): Asking about any ongoing promotions or special menus.

💬 Prices are stated with a meaning "at": a dez euros "at ten euros". Numbers combine with e "and": trinta e dois is literally "thirty and two".

💬 Esse points to something already mentioned or near the listener, here the menu just described. Este would mean "this one", near you.

💬 Aplicar-se a means "to apply to", and the se stays attached: a promoção aplica-se ao jantar? "does the promotion apply to dinner?". Note that a + o becomes ao.

💬 Weekdays are mostly numbered in Portuguese: segunda "Monday", terça "Tuesday", quarta "Wednesday", quinta "Thursday", sexta "Friday". The pattern de ... a ... works for any range: de terça a sábado "from Tuesday to Saturday".

💬 nesse is em + esse "that" merged. Likewise, nessa altura means "at that point".

💬 À is a + a merged into one word, and it sounds like a slightly longer, more open "ah".

💬 The h in harmonização is silent, as it always is in Portuguese, and ão at the end is nasal: (ar-moo-nee-za-SOWN).

🇵🇹 Water, coffee and the bread and starters placed on the table are commonly charged separately in Portugal. If you don't want the starters, you can send them back.

💬 é que slipped in after the subject adds emphasis, like "it's ... that": Só eu é que sei "Only I know". Here it stresses that only water and coffee are extra.

💬 Pode ser is literally "it can be" but is used to mean "that works" or "sure" when accepting an offer.

💬 Seria possível...? "Would it be possible...?" can be followed by any action verb, which makes it a handy polite opener: Seria possível mudar a hora? "Would it be possible to change the time?"

💬 Às is a "at" + as "the", because hours are treated as plural feminine. For one o'clock it becomes à uma.

💬 Portuguese puts de quem "of whom" at the end of the question, the reverse of English word order.

🇵🇹 Restaurants usually ask for a first name and a phone number. A first name alone is normally enough.

💬 de + as becomes das, so "of the people" is das pessoas. Um also changes to uma to match the feminine word pessoas.

💬 Vegetariana ends in -a because it describes a woman. For a man, say vegetariano.

💬 Vegetariana ends in -a to match pessoa "person", which is a feminine word, even when the person is a man.

💬 Há means "there is" or "there are" and doesn't change between singular and plural: Há mesas livres? "Are there free tables?" The h is silent: (ah).

💬 Legumes means vegetables in general, not legumes like beans. Beans are feijão.

💬 Ficar often means "to end up" or "to be left" rather than "to stay": fica marcado "it's booked".

💬 Simpatia means kindness or friendliness, not sympathy. In the same way, simpático means "nice".

💬 Até + a time or day is the standard way to say goodbye until then: até amanhã "see you tomorrow", até logo "see you later".