Vais para Lisboa?
Are you going to Lisbon?
Language note: “Vais” = “you go/are you going” (informal singular, tu). More formal: “Vai para Lisboa?” (você).
Culture note: In Portugal it’s common to ask travel plans casually, especially when you’re both clearly heading somewhere (station, platform, etc.).
Context: The staff member sees you checking a map and asks about your destination.
Word-by-Word Breakdown
Vais
[vyesh]
Are you going (to)…? / You’re going (to)…?
2nd-person singular of "ir" (to go). Used to ask someone’s plan or destination.
Vais no metro agora ou vais para Lisboa de comboio?
Are you taking the subway now or are you going to Lisbon by train?
para
[PAH-rah]
to / toward / for
Preposition indicating destination or direction (going to a place).
Do Porto para Lisboa, às vezes vou de comboio e não de metro.
From Porto to Lisbon, sometimes I go by train and not by subway.
Lisboa
[leesh-BOH-ah]
Lisbon
Capital city of Portugal; often used as a travel destination in questions like this.
Vou para Lisboa e depois apanho o metro para o hotel.
I’m going to Lisbon and then I take the subway to the hotel.
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