"Eu vou passar na sua casa amanhã."

[gerry11111]

can "come by your house" work well as an english translation here? Or does that not convey the exact meaning of the verb?

[Paulenrique]

Yup.. passar in this situation means pass by/ stop by

[brettreasure]

Does this mean I need to bake cookies or not? Are they actually planning to enter the house?

[Paulenrique]

We cant guess if they will exactly enter the house, but it involves going to the house, maybe to pick up something, or even catch up on their talk...

[brettreasure]

Thanks Paul, that's clear. I asked because in English 'pass by' does not imply visiting, whereas 'stop by' does. Starts mixing cookie dough.

[Paulenrique]

Yeah :), so passar em can be used both to pass by and stop by....the real action will depeding on the context

[shatto]

Just to confuse matters more there are some American/British English differences in usage... it's open to interpretation whether stopping and passing imply entering... in a literal translation using the word 'by' implies next to... but a lot of people would take this as entering... the next question is what constitutes a cookie!?

[brettreasure]

hahah. True. Biscuits where I'm from, though the American cultural juggernaut has brought cookies into common use. Also, I work in the web industry so totes confused.

[shatto]

I'm sorry but if a biscuit doesn't have chocolate (or other flavoured) chips in it, then it's is simply not a cookie... I believe this is backed up by the Brazilians too... long live the biscuit... I'm sure the Queen would agree, bet she's never had a cookie... hmm... what were we talking about again!?