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Leitfaden · Einheit 20 · C1

Professional Portuguese

Emails, meetings, and the formal register

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    O senhor, a senhora: choosing your register

    Você or o senhor? Five ways to ask for the same thing — and the courteous conditional that runs through Brazilian working life.

    • Você is the default; o senhor / a senhora add respect — older or senior people, clients, first formal contact.
    • O senhor takes the você verb form; for your, do senhor / da senhora is clearest; don't pair it with te.
    • The conditional is the courtesy tool: poderia, gostaria de, seria possível, teria.
    • Office verbs: enviar / encaminhar, solicitar, verificar, entrar em contato com, informar.
    • Pode me chamar de você ends the formality; on the phone, É ela / É ele means Speaking.
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    Prezada…, Atenciosamente: the business email

    The five-part skeleton, the set phrases that carry it, and the subjunctive hiding in every polite email.

    • Five parts: Assunto, Saudação, Abertura, Corpo, Fechamento.
    • Prezado / Prezada / Prezados agree with whoever you're writing to; Atenciosamente is the safe sign-off.
    • Segue / Seguem em anexo agrees with what's attached; em anexo never changes.
    • Venho, por meio deste… is for official letters — in a routine email it sounds stiff.
    • The subjunctive does the politeness: Espero que esteja bem, Peço que envie, Caso tenha alguma dúvida.
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    Eu diria que…: the job interview

    Talk about your background, strengths and weaknesses in the measured, courteous tone a Brazilian interview tends to reward.

    • Key words: a vaga, o cargo, a trajetória, o ponto forte / fraco, a equipe, contratar.
    • The conditional keeps claims measured: Eu diria que…, Gostaria de…, Seria… — dizer gives diria.
    • Hypotheticals about the job: Se eu fosse contratada, eu trabalharia…
    • Present a weakness as work in progress: Estou aprendendo a…
    • Join the small talk, then be courteous, prepared and measured — and bring questions of your own.
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    A pauta e o prazo: your first team meeting

    Meeting vocabulary, polite proposals with the subjunctive — and the future subjunctive behind quando puder.

    • Meeting words: a pauta (agenda), a ata (minutes), o prazo (deadline), adiar, revisar, entregar.
    • Proposals trigger the subjunctive: Gostaria de propor que a gente divida…, Sugiro que…, É importante que…
    • A conditional main clause takes the imperfect subjunctive: Seria melhor se o cliente enviasse…
    • Disagree softly: Entendo, mas seria possível…?
    • Quando, se, assim que + future subjunctive for what's still to come: quando puder, se precisar, assim que receber.
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