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How to say “Could you put these in separate bags?” in Portuguese
Ask for items to be packed separately.
Você poderia colocar em sacolas separadas?
Could you put these in separate bags?
Indicate which items should be kept apart.
Use it in three situations
Packing fruit
Você poderia colocar em sacolas separadas?
Could you put these in separate bags?
Keeping fragile items apart
Você poderia colocar o pão em uma sacola separada?
Could you put the bread in a separate bag?
Splitting a grocery purchase
Por favor, separe as frutas dos legumes.
Please keep the fruit separate from the vegetables.
What to watch for
Separate bags refers to packaging, rather than separate payments.
Read the whole expression before replacing a detail. The natural wording may use a different order or construction from the English sentence.
Your turn
Imagine markets and groceries. Say this in Portuguese: Could you put the bread in a separate bag?
Reveal a sample reply
Você poderia colocar o pão em uma sacola separada?
Could you put the bread in a separate bag?
Build a useful exchange
Buy a quantity and ask about a product.
This expression in other languages
A note on speaking Portuguese
These guides use Brazilian Portuguese. Você is a common everyday address; senhor or senhora may fit a more formal interaction. Eu gostaria and poderia can soften requests without making them complicated.
Keep the accents and nasal spellings, such as não and conexão. Portuguese in Portugal may use different everyday vocabulary or pronouns. The examples aim for broadly understandable Brazilian wording.
