European Portuguese · A1
At the Restaurant
João, Maria, Hans and Anna go to a Portuguese restaurant.
Read the Portuguese below, open the English translations when you need help, then listen and practise in the interactive activity.
Read the conversation
Empregado
Mesa para quantos?
Translation
Table for how many?
Empregado
Sigam-me, por favor.
Translation
Follow me, please.
João
Pode trazer os menus primeiro, por favor?
Translation
Can you bring the menus first, please?
Empregado
Aqui estão os menus.
Translation
Here are the menus.
Empregado
Já escolheram o que querem comer?
Translation
Have you already chosen what you want to eat?
Empregado
E o que vão querer para beber?
Translation
And what will you want to drink?
João
Uma garrafa de vinho tinto e uma garrafa de água.
Translation
A bottle of red wine and a bottle of water.
Hans
E o vinho também é muito bom!
Translation
And the wine is also very good!
Useful expressions
- Mesa para quantos?
- “Table for how many?”
- Sigam-me, por favor.
- “Follow me, please.”
- Pode trazer os menus?
- “Can you bring the menus?”
- O que vão querer para beber?
- “What would you like to drink?”
- Uma garrafa de vinho tinto
- “A bottle of red wine.”
Polite restaurant language
In restaurants, pode… por favor? is a polite way to ask for something. vão querer is a common way for staff to ask what the group would like.