European Portuguese · A1
Ride Home
João drives the Schmidt family to their new home.
Read the Portuguese below, open the English translations when you need help, then listen and practise in the interactive activity.
Read the conversation
João
É a vossa primeira vez em Portugal?
Translation
Is this your first time in Portugal?
Anna
Sim! É a primeira vez! Estamos muito felizes!
Translation
Yes! It’s the first time! We are very happy!
Lukas
Uau! É tão lindo! Olha!
Translation
Wow! It’s so beautiful! Look!
João
Mas… Esta é a vossa casa?
Translation
But… Is this your home?
Anna
Sim! Esta é a nossa casa!
Translation
Yes! This is our home!
João
Então vamos ser vizinhos! Venham! Vou apresentar-vos à minha família!
Translation
So we are going to be neighbours! Come! I will introduce you to my family!
Useful expressions
- É a vossa primeira vez…?
- “Is this your first time…?” when speaking informally to more than one person.
- Estamos muito felizes.
- “We are very happy.”
- É tão lindo!
- “It is so beautiful!”
- Esta é a nossa casa.
- “This is our home.”
- Vamos ser vizinhos.
- “We are going to be neighbours.”
Nossa and vossa show who something belongs to.
A nossa casa means “our home”. In European Portuguese, a vossa casa can mean “your home” when speaking informally to a group. Both words agree with the feminine noun casa.