{"id":2520,"date":"2011-07-26T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2011-07-26T00:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:01:02","slug":"writing-formal-emails-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/writing-formal-emails-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Formal Emails in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who need to learn Portuguese for work, today&#8217;s post will come in handy. We&#8217;re going to learn how to write a formal e-mail in Portuguese, including the salutation and leave-taking. There are ways to write even more formally, but we&#8217;re going to learn the simpler version.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Salutation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A formal salutation to use is <em>Prezado Senhor<\/em> or <em>Prezada Senhora<\/em>, depending on the gender (senhor is male, senhora is female). You can also use<em> Senhores<\/em>, if you&#8217;re writing to more than one person.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Body of the e-mail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here are some key phrases you might need:<\/p>\n<p><em>Quero agradecer<\/em> (I&#8217;d like to thank you&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><em>Encaminho em anexo<\/em> (I&#8217;m sending you an attachment)<\/p>\n<p><em>Solicito essa oportunidade<\/em> (I&#8217;m seeking this opportunity)<\/p>\n<p><em>Venho enviar a documenta\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> (I&#8217;m sending you the documentation)<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Leave-taking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most common way to sign off a formal email is with <em>Atenciosamente<\/em> (sincerely). Here are some other ones you can use:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sem mais, agrade\u00e7o desde j\u00e1,\u00a0 <\/em>(And with that, I thank you in advance)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Com meus cumprimentos, <\/em>(Greetings)<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Atentamente,<\/em> (Sincerely)<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s look at a full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tudobox.com\/460\/modelo_de_email_formal.html\">example e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prezado Senhor,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somos uma empresa de representa\u00e7\u00f5es em vendas e temos em nosso quadro funcional apenas vendedores altamente capacitados e profissionalizados.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anexamos nesta oportunidade nosso portfolio para an\u00e1lise e manifestamos nossa inten\u00e7\u00e3o de representar sua empresa em munic\u00edpios da regi\u00e3o. Caso haja interesse por parte de sua empresa, nos colocamos \u00e0 disposi\u00e7\u00e3o para novos contatos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Agradecemos a aten\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Atenciosamente,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>S\u00e9rgio Fernandes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coming soon: writing informal e-mails in Portuguese!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who need to learn Portuguese for work, today&#8217;s post will come in handy. We&#8217;re going to learn how to write a formal e-mail in Portuguese, including the salutation and leave-taking. There are ways to write even more formally, but we&#8217;re going to learn the simpler version. 1. Salutation A formal salutation to use&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/writing-formal-emails-in-portuguese\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[31,2096,7412],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-business","tag-email","tag-formal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}