Invite Someone to Your Home in Brazilian Portuguese — Practice

Give an invitation with a clear time

Use quer vir à minha casa? (would you like to come to my place?) and add a day or activity. To make the invitation easy to accept or decline, give a specific time and ask what works for the other person.

If you prefer a casual invitation, say passa lá em casa (drop by my place) but still agree on when if timing matters.

Share the address and arrival details

Send the full address and include a useful detail such as the apartment number or which entrance to use. If there is a gate or intercom, tell your guest what name to look for.

For broader practice spelling an address or phone number, use our separate Portuguese address guide.

Welcome the guest and offer something

When someone arrives, say fica à vontade (make yourself at home) or quer alguma coisa para beber? (would you like something to drink?). If you are offering a specific choice, name it clearly.

Hospitality phrases can be warm without requiring a long conversation. A simple offer and one follow-up question help a guest feel included.

Remember: Practice an invitation with a day and time, one address message, and one welcome phrase you can use at the door.

Check your understanding

Choose the English meaning of each Portuguese example. Answer before looking back at the tables. These questions check the written examples in this guide; they are not a listening or proficiency test.

Recall the Portuguese, then say it

Read the English prompt and say a Portuguese version before opening the answer. The answer shows the example from the lesson; other natural translations may also work. Compare the meaning and the situation rather than counting a different word as automatically wrong.

1. Would you like to come to my place for dinner on Friday?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Quer vir à minha casa para jantar na sexta?

2. You can arrive after seven.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Pode chegar depois das sete.

3. What time works best for you?

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Que horário fica melhor para você?

4. I’ll send the address on WhatsApp.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Vou mandar o endereço pelo WhatsApp.

5. Buzz apartment 402.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   Toque o interfone no apartamento 402.

6. The entrance is on the street behind.

   Show a Portuguese answer

   A entrada fica na rua de trás.

Make the phrase useful to you

Choose one example you could actually use. Say it once from memory, then change one detail that fits your life, such as the person, place, time, or object. Check whether your change also needs a different verb form, article, or adjective ending. If it does, compare it with the pattern in the explanation.

Practice an invitation with a day and time, one address message, and one welcome phrase you can use at the door.

Return to two prompts tomorrow without opening the answers first. If a phrase still feels difficult, shorten it to a useful chunk and build the complete sentence again.

Sources and your next lesson

This I Speak Portuguese practice guide builds on our Invite Someone to Your Home in Brazilian Portuguese lesson on Real Life Portuguese, with written recall tasks and additional speaking practice. The explanations and examples are teaching material; the practice questions are exercises, not a transcript of a recording.

To add Brazilian audio to your routine, choose a lesson in the Real Life Portuguese app. The app offers its own lessons and practice; this page does not imply that every example here has an app recording.