Somos namorados, por isso, pelo menos, damos as mãos, certo?

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#1

What’s with all the commas in Portuguese???

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#2

to separate things that would not mean the same thing if the comma was not there.

#3

While not wrong, this is not a very common sentence structure, to be honest.

Something like this would sound a little bit more natural, in my opinion:

Somos namorados, por isso, pelo menos damos as mãos, certo?

And if you want to simplify it further (at the cost of slightly changing its meaning):

Somos namorados, logo damos as mãos, certo?

Despite the slight change of meaning (logo / therefore), it sounds more natural. But like I said, the original sentence isn’t wrong either, it’s just not a very common way to express it.

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