{"id":1266,"date":"2010-06-28T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T01:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2010-06-27T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T23:34:23","slug":"days-time-of-the-day-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/days-time-of-the-day-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Days &amp; Time of the Day in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Portuguese, we tend to use days and times of the day in different orders and such than in English.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in English you would say, &#8220;I had lunch late in the afternoon on Wednesday, at 3 o&#8217;clock.&#8221; \u00a0In Portuguese, the same sentence would be, &#8220;Eu almocei \u00a0tarde na quarta-feira, \u00e0s 3 horas da tarde.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re going to go over some of the vocabulary and examples on how to use words related to days and times of the day in Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1.jpg\" aria-label=\"Daystime1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1270\" title=\"daystime\"  alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"361\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1.jpg 217w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1-210x350.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now for a few notes and tricks:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Note that days of the week in Portuguese are in lowercase as opposed to uppercase in English.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A trick to remember days of the week is to think of them as having a number order. \u00a0If Sunday is the first day of the week, and Monday is the second, therefore Monday is, &#8220;segunda,&#8221; (second) and Tuesday is &#8220;ter\u00e7a,&#8221; (third), and so on until you get to &#8220;sexta,&#8221; (sixth) on Friday. \u00a0If you need to refresh your ordinals, check out this post on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-ordinal-numbers-pronunciation\/\">Portuguese Ordinal Numbers and their Pronunciation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; When you do something &#8220;in the morning\/afternoon\/night,&#8221; in Portuguese you would put a &#8220;de,&#8221; in front of it. \u00a0For example, &#8220;<em>Eu tomo caf\u00e9 de manh\u00e3<\/em>,&#8221; or &#8220;<em>Eu saio para dan\u00e7ar de noite<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; When saying the exact date of something with day included, you do so in this order, &#8220;No dia+date+month+de+year+na+day+da+period.&#8221; \u00a0Ex. &#8211; <em>Eu nasci dia 14 de novembro de 1985 na quinta-feira, <\/em>or <em>Minha consulta m\u00e9dica \u00e9 dia 07 de julho na quarta-feira da semana que vem. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>What are some of your other doubts about days and time of the day in Portuguese?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"210\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1-210x350.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1-210x350.jpg 210w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/daystime1.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p>In Portuguese, we tend to use days and times of the day in different orders and such than in English. For example, in English you would say, &#8220;I had lunch late in the afternoon on Wednesday, at 3 o&#8217;clock.&#8221; \u00a0In Portuguese, the same sentence would be, &#8220;Eu almocei \u00a0tarde na quarta-feira, \u00e0s 3 horas da&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/days-time-of-the-day-in-portuguese\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":1270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851,13],"tags":[3604,2410,156,379357,9722],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-vocabulary","tag-days","tag-portuguese","tag-time","tag-vocabulary","tag-week"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}