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How do you ask for 'a table for two' in Portuguese?

Uma mesa para dois, por favor.

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  1. Um quarto para dois, por favor.
  2. Uma conta para dois, por favor.
  3. Uma mesa para dois, por favor. ✔

Why: Mesa is table and para dois is for two.

Huh, didn't know that: The FSI restaurant dialog also asks whether you can sit by the window, janela.

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Teacher: Why are you doing your multiplication on the floor? Student: You told me not to use tables.
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Answer: Uma mesa para dois, por favor.. Mesa is table and para dois is for two.

  1. FSI Brazilian Portuguese FAST, Volume 2 (Foreign Service Institute) fsi-language-courses-media.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/languages/Portuguese/FAST/Volume%202/FSI%20-%20Portuguese%20FAST%20-%20Volume%202.pdf
    Boa noite, uma mesa para dois, por favor.
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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