Portuguese · Finanças
Take a ticket and work out when it is your turn: what to say in Portuguese
At Finanças you have to take a ticket and wait until your number appears on the screen.
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How it's done. Numbers are called on the screen together with the counter (balcão) - the ticket and counter can have different letters and digits.Prepared by the Movko team, November 2026. This is language help, not legal or medical advice: check the rules with the office itself.
Cheat sheet for your visit
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1
THEY SPEAK FIRST
THEY SAY
Tire senha na máquina, se faz favor.Teer SEH-nyuh nuh MAH-kee-nuh, s fahsh fuh-VOR.
Take a ticket from the machine, please.
They might also say:
Tire uma senha na máquina, se faz favor.
Teer OO-muh SEH-nyuh nuh MAH-kee-nuh, s fahsh fuh-VOR.
Take a ticket from the machine, please.
YOU REPLY
Qual é a senha para as Finanças?
Kwahl eh uh SEH-nyuh pruh uhsh fee-NAHN-suhsh?
Which ticket is for Finanças?
THEY SAY
Escolha Finanças no ecrã da máquina.SHKOH-lyuh fee-NAHN-suhzh noo eh-KRAHN duh MAH-kee-nuh.
Choose Finanças on the machine's screen.
2
YOU REPLY
Obrigado.
Oh-bree-GAH-doo.
Thank you.
THEY SAY
Senha A quarenta e dois, balcão cinco.SEH-nyuh uh kwuh-RAYN-tuh ee doysh, buhl-KOW SEEN-koo.
Ticket A forty-two, counter five.
3
YOU REPLY
Sou eu, A quarenta e dois.
Soh eh-oo, uh kwuh-RAYN-tuh ee doysh.
That's me, A forty-two.
THEY SAY
Faça favor, balcão cinco.FAH-suh fuh-VOR, buhl-KOW SEEN-koo.
Please, counter five.
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YOU FINISH
Obrigado!
oh-bree-GAH-doo!
Thank you!
Or say:Muito obrigado!
MWEE-too oh-bree-GAH-doo!
The course is in the app
This dialogue is part of the course “Portuguese for life in Portugal”: 416 situations with audio, a pronunciation guide and spaced review.
On the website the first dialogue, the 112 category, the rescue phrases and the “Basics” are fully open.
Words worth knowing
Tire
Teer
verb
take
senha
SEH-nyuh
noun
numbered ticket (a queue ticket)
máquina
MAH-kee-nuh
noun
machine
faz
fahsh
verb
does, makes
favor
fuh-VOR
noun
favour, kindness
é
eh
verb
is
20 more words, with explanations, base forms and tap-a-word help, are in the app.
If you did not understand
Pode repetir, por favor?
Pod rih-pih-TEER, poor fuh-VOR?
Can you repeat that, please?
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