To have breakfast in Portuguese 🇧🇷

tomar café da manhã info.

Tips to remember the verb:
• Notice that “tomar” usually means “to take,” but in the context of meals it means “to have.”
• Associate “café da manhã” literally as “morning coffee” to remind you that in Brazil breakfast is traditionally centered around coffee.
• Link similar constructions like “tomar um banho” (to take a bath) to build a pattern.

Explanations:
• “Tomar café da manhã” is a fixed expression meaning “to have breakfast.”
• While “comer” means “to eat,” “tomar” is the common verb used to express having a meal (especially beverages or meals like coffee in the morning).
• In some regions, you might also hear alternatives like “fazer o café da manhã” (to make/have breakfast), although “tomar café da manhã” is more typical.

Other words with similar meaning:
• “Fazer o café da manhã” – literally “to make breakfast,” also used to mean “to have breakfast.”
• “Desjejumar” – a less common, more formal term meaning “to have breakfast.”

Conjugations of “tomar” (Infinitive: tomar):

Present:
• Eu tomo café da manhã.  (I have breakfast.)
• Tu tomas café da manhã.  (You have breakfast.)
• Ele/Ela toma café da manhã. (He/She has breakfast.)
• Nós tomamos café da manhã.  (We have breakfast.)
• Vós tomais café da manhã.  (You [plural] have breakfast.)
• Eles/Elas tomam café da manhã. (They have breakfast.)

Preterite (Pretérito Perfeito):
• Eu tomei café da manhã.  (I had breakfast.)
• Tu tomaste café da manhã. (You had breakfast.)
• Ele/Ela tomou café da manhã. (He/She had breakfast.)
• Nós tomamos café da manhã.  (We had breakfast.)
• Vós tomastes café da manhã. (You [plural] had breakfast.)
• Eles/Elas tomaram café da manhã. (They had breakfast.)

Future:
• Eu tomarei café da manhã.  (I will have breakfast.)
• Tu tomarás café da manhã.  (You will have breakfast.)
• Ele/Ela tomará café da manhã.  (He/She will have breakfast.)
• Nós tomaremos café da manhã.  (We will have breakfast.)
• Vós tomareis café da manhã.  (You [plural] will have breakfast.)
• Eles/Elas tomarão café da manhã. (They will have breakfast.)

Examples of sentences:
• Eu sempre tomo café da manhã antes de sair para o trabalho.
(I always have breakfast before leaving for work.)

• Ontem, ela tomou café da manhã às sete horas.
(Yesterday, she had breakfast at seven o’clock.)

• Amanhã, nós vamos tomar café da manhã juntos.
(Tomorrow, we are going to have breakfast together.)

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