In Brazil, “café da manhã” (morning coffee) is the term for breakfast, but it’s often shortened to just “café.”
There was a mobile blood donation set up during Covid and I asked the group chat if it was okay to have coffee before donating, and the response was, “Yes, you should definitely be well-fed before donating blood.”
Might work in Portuguese. In my original example it wouldn’t work in German. “Zusammen einen Kaffee trinking gehen” (to go drink a coffee together) still doesn’t imply that you actually drink coffee, it more implies that you just get a small thing together.
It still confuses me that I can have a cup of coffee with somebody without actually drinking coffee. (In English and my mother tongue as well.)
As a coffee drinker, if I was invited for some coffee and did not in fact get any coffee I’d be both a little confused and a little annoyed.
In Brazil, “café da manhã” (morning coffee) is the term for breakfast, but it’s often shortened to just “café.”
There was a mobile blood donation set up during Covid and I asked the group chat if it was okay to have coffee before donating, and the response was, “Yes, you should definitely be well-fed before donating blood.”
That’s pretty good!
Is the context where if you had said can i drink coffee before, it would have been less ambiguous?
Might work in Portuguese. In my original example it wouldn’t work in German. “Zusammen einen Kaffee trinking gehen” (to go drink a coffee together) still doesn’t imply that you actually drink coffee, it more implies that you just get a small thing together.