Texting & dating apps: Texting after the date to say you had fun

💬 The ending matches the speaker, not the listener: men say obrigado and women say obrigada.

💬 por + a becomes pela, and de + o becomes do. Also, Obrigado matches the speaker: men say obrigado and women say obrigada.

🇵🇹 This is the feminine of bom "good", but used alone it's a very Portuguese casual reaction, like "nice!" or "great!". You'll see it constantly in chats.

💬 boa is the feminine form of bom, used here because it describes comida. With a masculine noun you'd say O vinho é muito bom "The wine is very good".

💬 The -a ending of divertida matches a feminine thing like a conversa. For a masculine thing it becomes divertido: O jantar foi divertido.

💬 Pois is a very Portuguese way of agreeing, roughly "right, indeed". Pois foi means "it sure was", and you can echo other verbs the same way: Pois é "exactly".

💬 In Portugal, rir "to laugh" usually takes me, so Ri-me means "I laughed". The com + ti combination becomes contigo, and likewise comigo means "with me".

🇵🇹 This is a genuinely flirty but light compliment, and a nice way to show interest without being too forward.

💬 Queres is the tu form, so the verb ending alone tells you it's "you". Portuguese turns a statement into a question just by raising your voice at the end, with no word-order change.

🇵🇹 In Portugal, people your age on dating apps use tu straight away. Using the more formal você here would feel oddly distant.

💬 Portuguese often answers "yes" by repeating the verb: Queres? gets the reply Quero, and sim just adds emphasis. Same with Gostas? "Do you like it?", answered by Gosto!.

💬 Que tal + anything makes a suggestion: Que tal um café? "How about a coffee?". Days take no (em + o) for masculine days like sábado, and na for feminine ones like na sexta "on Friday".

💬 This uses está rather than é because it means "works for me" right now, not a permanent fact about Saturday.

🇵🇹 Combinado is the standard way to seal a plan by text in Portugal. It confirms that everything is agreed.

💬 Portuguese uses the plain falamos "we talk" for "let's talk" plans. Likewise, Vemo-nos sábado means "See you Saturday".

🇵🇹 Portuguese people say Boa noite both as a greeting after dark and to sign off. As a last text of the evening, it's the natural goodbye.

🇵🇹 beijinhos is a standard friendly sign-off in Portugal, even between friends and colleagues. On a dating app it's warm but not necessarily flirty.

🇵🇹 This is affectionate, a step warmer than just Boa noite. It suits a date that clearly went well.