Restaurant reservations Part 3 (Advanced): Confirming the reservation details, including date, time, and number of guests.

💬 está uses estar, the "to be" for current, changeable situations. A booking sitting under someone's name is a temporary state, so it's estar, not ser.

💬 Em nome de "in the name of" is the fixed way to say whose name a booking is under. Answer with the same pattern: Em nome de Smith.

💬 Times take as "the" because horas "hours" is understood: as oito "eight o'clock". Era "it was" softens a confirmation politely, the same way English says "it was for..." about a future booking.

💬 me sits before engano here because não pulls it forward. Without não it would go after the verb: engano-me "I'm mistaken".

🇵🇹 Adding se não me engano is a polite way to check details without sounding demanding. It's very natural in this kind of phone call.

💬 às is a "at" plus as "the". It's the standard way to say "at" with any time: às nove "at nine".

🇵🇹 Restaurants and official settings often use the 24-hour clock, so vinte e trinta is the same booking as oito e meia. Expect to hear both.

💬 Afinal often means "it turns out" or "actually" when you're announcing a change of plan, not just "after all". Try Afinal não posso "Actually, I can't".

💬 Portuguese gives a number of people with "we will be" plus the number. Swap in any number: Somos quatro "There are four of us".

💬 daria comes from dar "to give", but dá para means "it's possible to". You'll hear dá? constantly as a casual "is that OK?", with daria the softer, more polite version.

💬 mais uma means "one more": the mais comes first, unlike English. Same pattern: mais um café "one more coffee".

🇵🇹 Staff say this while checking the bookings, so expect a short pause before the answer.

💬 de cima means "upstairs" or "top", and its opposite is de baixo "downstairs". Try o andar de baixo "the floor below".

🇵🇹 Pode ser? is the go-to way to check that someone is happy with an offer, and Pode ser works as the answer too. It sounds easygoing and polite.

💬 Portuguese often says yes by repeating the verb from the question, here pode, and tacks on sim for emphasis. Pode? "Can I?" gets Pode, sim.

💬 Portuguese stacks two negatives without cancelling them out: não plus nenhum means "no... at all". Similarly não há nada "there's nothing".

💬 Convém works like "it's advisable to" and is followed straight by a base verb. Try Convém reservar? "Is it best to book?".

💬 antecedência means "advance" in the sense of earlier timing. It also gives com antecedência "in advance", as in booking ahead.

💬 superior a is the formal way of saying "more than"; in speech you'd usually hear mais de quinze minutos. Its opposite is inferior a "less than".

🇵🇹 Many Portuguese restaurants hold a table for about 15 minutes, then may give it away. Call ahead if you're running late.

🇵🇹 Combinado is the usual friendly way to close an arrangement, like "deal" or "sounds good". People say it on the phone just before saying goodbye.

💬 Obrigado changes with the speaker: a man says obrigado, a woman says obrigada. Muito just intensifies it: muito obrigado/a = thank you very much.

💬 Pela is a contraction of por + a. You'll see the same thing elsewhere: pelo = por + o.

💬 Pela is a contraction of por + a: obrigado pela ajuda, obrigado pela atenção. Also, obrigado matches the speaker, so women say obrigada.

💬 fica from ficar "to stay" is used to settle arrangements: "so it stays as Saturday". You'll hear Fica combinado "It's agreed" too.

🇵🇹 Staff will usually read back day, time and party size like this before hanging up. A simple Exatamente, obrigado "Exactly, thank you" closes the call nicely.

🇵🇹 Saying Até plus a day is the natural goodbye once a plan is set, as in Até amanhã "See you tomorrow".

💬 Put any day or time after até to say "see you then": até sexta "see you Friday", até amanhã "see you tomorrow". Days of the week are written in lowercase in Portuguese.