Dating & Romance

1. Podo convidarte a un café?

   Can I invite you for a coffee?

   Usage

   A casual invitation to coffee, said to one person in the informal ti register

   Grammar Note

   The object pronoun te attaches to the infinitive without a hyphen (convidarte). Café is masculine, hence un café

2. Tes plans para o fin de semana?

   Do you have plans for the weekend?

   Usage

   A question about weekend plans that opens the way to suggest meeting

   Grammar Note

   The 2nd-person singular of ter is tes. "Weekend" is o fin de semana (masculine). Only the closing "?" is written

3. Gustaríame convidarte a cear

   I would like to take you to dinner

   Usage

   A polite way to invite someone to dinner; cear is to have dinner, while lunch is xantar

   Grammar Note

   Cear means to have dinner and xantar means to have lunch; Portuguese jantar (dinner) is not used. Convidar a + infinitive means to invite someone to do something

4. Es incrible, sabes?

   You are incredible, you know that?

   Usage

   A friendly, casual compliment

   Grammar Note

   Incrible has one form for both genders. The 2nd-person singular of ser is es (not Spanish eres). "Sabes" works as a tag asking for agreement

5. Podes darme o teu número?

   Can you give me your number?

   Usage

   Asks for someone's phone number

   Grammar Note

   Your is teu (masc.) or túa (fem.). Número carries an accent. The pronoun me attaches to the infinitive without a hyphen

6. Podemos vernos mañá?

   Can we meet tomorrow?

   Usage

   Proposes meeting up the next day

   Grammar Note

   Mañá means both tomorrow and morning (accent on the last a). The pronoun nos attaches to the infinitive without a hyphen

7. Gústasme moito

   I really like you

   Usage

   Tells someone plainly that you like them

   Grammar Note

   Gustar means to be pleasing, so the person liked is the subject. "A lot" is moito (not Spanish mucho or Portuguese muito)

8. Quérote

   I love you

   Usage

   Tells a partner or loved one "I love you"

   Grammar Note

   Querer also means to love, and the pronoun te attaches to the verb without a hyphen; the stress falls on the first syllable (Quérote)

9. Que tal un paseo pola beiramar?

   How about a walk along the waterfront?

   Usage

   A date suggestion for a walk by the sea

   Grammar Note

   Pola is the contraction of por + a. Beiramar is the strip of land along the sea (RAG dictionary), where people stroll

10. Prefiro ir amodo na relación

    I prefer to take the relationship slowly

    Usage

    Says you want to take things slowly in a relationship

    Grammar Note

    Amodo is an adverb for slowly (a synonym of devagar in the RAG dictionary). Na is en + a. The -ción ending is Galician (not Portuguese relação)

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