Team meetings at work: Agreeing or disagreeing with a colleague's idea
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Key Phrases
E se fizermos a reunião à segunda?
What if we hold the meeting on Mondays?
Achas que o chefe vai concordar?
Do you think the boss will agree?
Obrigado pela ajuda, Ana.
Thanks for the help, Ana.
Skills You'll Learn
Making suggestions using 'What if...?'
Fazer sugestões usando 'E se...?'
Asking for opinions with 'Do you think...?'
Pedir opiniões com 'Achas que...?'
Expressing thanks formally using proper names
Agradecer formalmente usando nomes próprios
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine you're at work, just before a team meeting. You want to suggest a new day for the meeting to your colleague Ana.
Bom dia, Ana. Tens um minuto antes da reunião?
Good morning, Ana. Do you have a minute before the meeting?
Bom dia, Emily . Claro, diz.
Good morning, Emily. Sure, go ahead.
Tenho uma ideia. E se fizermos a reunião à segunda?
I have an idea. What if we hold the meeting on Mondays?
Hum, não sei. À segunda há muito trabalho.
Hmm, I'm not sure. There's a lot of work on Mondays.
Tens razão. E à terça de manhã?
You're right. What about Tuesday morning?
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Tens um minuto?
tayns oong mee-NOO-too
Do you have a minute?
🇵🇹 Using tu forms like tens with colleagues is normal in many Portuguese offices, but with a manager or someone senior you'd usually say Tem um minuto? instead.
See breakdown →Antes da reunião
AHN-tsh dah hee-oo-nee-OWN
Before the meeting
💬 de + a merges into da, so "before the meeting" is antes da reunião. With a masculine word it's do: antes do almoço "before lunch".
See breakdown →Tens um minuto antes da reunião?
tayns oong mee-NOO-too AHN-tsh dah hee-oo-nee-OWN
Do you have a minute before the meeting?
A reunião
uh hee-oo-nee-OWN
The meeting
💬 The ending ão in reunião is nasal, said through the nose like a squashed "ow": (heh-oo-nee-OWN), with no real n at the end.
See breakdown →Claro, diz.
KLAH-roo deesh
Sure, go ahead.
💬 diz is the "you" command form of dizer "to say", so it literally means "say it". The same short form works for faz "do it".
See breakdown →Tenho uma ideia.
TEN-yoo OO-muh ee-DAY-ah
I have an idea.
E se fizermos a reunião?
ee suh fee-ZEH-moosh uh hee-oo-nee-OWN
What if we hold the meeting?
💬 E se + a verb ending in -rmos is a ready-made way to suggest something as a group. Swap the verb: E se mudarmos a data? "What if we change the date?"
🇵🇹 Putting an idea as a question is a soft, collaborative way to propose it. It invites others in rather than pushing your view.
See breakdown →À segunda
ah se-GOON-da
On Monday
💬 Weekdays are named by number, and à (from a + a) means "on". Same pattern: à terça "on Tuesday", à sexta "on Friday".
See breakdown →E se fizermos a reunião à segunda?
ee suh fee-ZEH-moosh uh hee-oo-nee-OWN ah se-GOON-da
What if we hold the meeting on Mondays?
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