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Your Weekly Word # 5: Dinner & To Have Dinner (with VIDEO)

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It is known that we use more words in Portuguese than in English to express the same idea. Well, there are exceptions, and here is one of them. 

  • Jantar (noun) = Dinner
  • Jantar (verb) = To have dinner

As a noun, dinner is a masculine word: o jantar.

 

Here are a few examples using jantar as a noun:

  • O jantar está pronto. (Dinner is ready)
  • O jantar está servido. (Dinner is served)
  • O jantar estava uma delícia. (Dinner was delicious)

Below are examples using jantar as a verb:

  • Estou com fome. Vou jantar. (I am hungry. I’m going to have dinner)
  • Você já jantou? (Did you have dinner yet?)
  • Marina e eu fomos jantar fora ontem. (Marina and I went out for dinner yesterday)

Notice in the last example that:

  • jantar fora = dine out or go out for dinner

Bom apetite!

 
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I’m Luciana, founder of Street Smart Brazil. I am so happy to be able to help you in your Portuguese speaking journey! Teaching Portuguese as a foreign language was one of the best things that could have happened in my life. I’ve had the privilege of teaching Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of San Francisco. Now I am fully dedicated to the Street Smart Brazil community.

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