como usar a palavra downtown (centro de cidade) em Inglês?

As you may have noticed by this point of your studies in English, prepositions like "to" or "in" sometimes don't go before nouns like home and downtown. It sounds weird at first for Brazilian students of English because we do use prepositions before those kinds of nouns in Portuguese. So it may take a while till you get used to that particularity of English.

But today I want to focus on the word downtown. As you can see by the title of this post, downtown means the central part or main business area of a city. We can also call it city center, something closer to what we say in Portuguese, but I have to tell you downtown is a much more common choice for English speakers. So here are some examples of the word downtown in full sentences:

I work downtown.

Eu trabalho no centro da cidade.

Do you live downtown?

Você mora no centro?

She works for a law firm in downtown Miami.

Ela trabalha para um escritório de advocacia no centro de Miami.

Let’s go downtown.

Vamos para o centro da cidade.