Olá, I have a problem of understanding the usages between “o almoço(the lunch) vs a almoçar(having lunch)”.
E.g. Tenho uma reunião depois do almoço. ( I have a meeting after my lunch) and Vou a uma reunião depois de almoçar. (I will go to a meeting after having my lunch). I don’t know when I should conjugate almoçar in the sentence. Please explain!!
@Soo91169, there’s not much to it, really. Both options are correct and sound natural, and you can choose whatever feels best for you in context, just as you would in English. If it helps, when we just use lunch as a general time reference (so, like noon–1pm), valid even if we don’t have lunch ourselves, we tend to keep it as a noun. But when referring specifically to our lunch, either way goes.