Restaurant reservations Part 4 (Advanced): Asking about accessibility features for disabled guests.

💬 de + o merges into do. Before a feminine word you get da: a porta da cozinha "the kitchen door".

💬 Tem also works as "is there / are there" in everyday speech. Swap the noun to ask about anything: Tem estacionamento? "Is there parking?"

💬 This is a question only because the voice rises at the end. The word order stays exactly the same as the statement.

💬 É só + an action means "just do X". Reuse it: É só ligar "just call".

💬 la means "it" and refers back to the ramp. When it attaches to a verb ending in -s, the s drops: colocamos + a becomes colocamo-la.

💬 casa de banho is the word for a toilet in Portugal. banheiro is Brazilian and will sound foreign here.

💬 adaptada ends in -a because it describes a casa de banho. For a masculine noun it changes to adaptado: o quarto é adaptado? "is the room accessible?"

💬 ficar is the usual verb for where a place is located. Reuse it to ask where something is: Onde fica? "Where is it?"

💬 Portuguese often answers yes by repeating the verb instead of saying sim. Here that's É, meaning "It is".

💬 There's no "a" before elevador. This is normal when saying whether a place has something: Tem multibanco? "Is there a cash machine?"

💬 Once a wheelchair has been mentioned, cadeira "chair" on its own is enough. There's no need to repeat de rodas.

💬 Sabe is the polite "you know". It uses the same verb form as "he/she knows", so you won't see a separate word for "you" here.

💬 achar looks like "to find", but acho que means "I think". It's the everyday way to give an opinion or a guess.

💬 uns before a number means "about": uns dez minutos "about ten minutes". Portuguese also uses ter "to have" for measurements, so a chair "has" seventy centimetres.

💬 Será que at the start softens a question into "I wonder if...". Put it before any question: Será que está aberto? "I wonder if it's open?"

💬 To say yes, you can repeat the verb and add sim: Cabe, sim. This sounds more natural than sim alone.

💬 perto needs de, which merges with the next word: da entrada, do elevador "near the lift".

💬 Use isso for "that" when you mean something the other person just said or offered. isto means "this", for something right next to you.

💬 Seria is handy for polite requests: Seria possível...? "Would it be possible...?"

💬 Portuguese often uses the plain present for something you're about to do: Deixo "I leave" works as "I'll leave". Same with Ligo amanhã "I'll call tomorrow".

💬 pronta ends in -a to match rampa, and it comes after the noun. For a masculine word it switches to -o: o elevador pronto "the lift ready".

💬 para + termos means "so we have". Portuguese can add -mos to the basic verb form to show who is doing it, so you don't need a full extra clause. Swap it in: para estarmos "so we're", para sabermos "so we know".

💬 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.

🇵🇹 This is a very typical Portuguese goodbye on the phone or in shops, and people say it as standard politeness. Use continuação de bom dia before lunch, and you can simply reply igualmente "likewise".