"Qual é a profissão do papai?"

Translation: What is dad's profession?

[GrossG]

How about "What is father's profession?"

[zvukosav]

I agree with GrossG, "What is father's profession?" should be also accepted!

[aidandeno]

I said "What is THE dad's profession?" Is this not correct?

[M132T003C]

This should be accepted. It’s a perfectly valid sentence if you’re talking about a different family to yours. Unless of course you would have to use a different Portuguese sentence for such a situation.

[66mh]

What is dad's profession?
What is dad's work?

Both of these should be correct answers.

[r_i_l_e_y]

Colloquially maybe, but formally "profession" and "work" are not synonyms.

[CabanasTavira]

What about, 'what is the profession of dad'?

[BGMarc]

I wondered almost the same as I put "What is the profession of the dad?", which is not particularly strange sounding in English.

[SergioFili3]

@moraima_d (Do) it refers to the gender! O Papai=genero masculino. So in Potuguese we always try to define the gender of nouns. "O/um principe vs a/uma princesa". This is not the case in West Germanic language such as English and Dutch.

[moraima_d]

OK I see, we do that similar in Spanish, I just thought "do" was used when you are saying "of the" . in those cases I do understand it. I have to pay attention when just "De" is used. Thank you!!!

[dmartinyoung]

I can think of several contexts where it would be perfectly natural in English to say, "What is the father's occupation?" Filling family info into a form for an absent person, for example. My question, though: Would the Portuguese be used in places where the more natural English phrase would be "your father's occupation?"

[moraima_d]

Why is it "do" instead of "de" ? It marked it wrong but I don't understand

[cdjaimesh]

"de o papai" --> "do papai". Always (or almost always) use defined articles before noun

[JasonNolan3]

Whats your dads job wrong???