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Q: Já leste este livro? A: Já. / Ainda não. Q: "Have you already read this book?" A: "Yes", literally, "Already." / "Not yet." The word sim ("yes") may be used for a positive answer, but, if used alone, it may in certain cases sound unnatural or impolite. In Brazilian Portuguese, sim can be used after the verb for emphasis.
João Aguiar (1943–2010); Manuel Alegre (born 1936), poet; Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515); Ana Filomena Amaral (born 1961), novelist; Ana Luísa Amaral (born 1956); Eugénio de Andrade pseudonym of José Fontinhas (1923–2005), poet
The story is told in the first person and the main character is 54-year-old Bento de Albuquerque Santiago, a solitary, well-established lawyer from Rio de Janeiro who, after having rebuilt his childhood house "in the old Rua de Matacavalos" (now Rua do Riachuelo []) in Engenho Novo, wants to "tie together the two ends of life and restore his adolescence in old age", in other words, recount his ...
EP: Eu vi-me ao espelho. BP: Eu me vi no espelho. Não te levas muito a sério. EP: De repente, vimo-nos perdidos na floresta. BP: De repente, nos vimos perdidos na floresta. In the third person, the reflexive pronoun has a form of its own, se, or si if preceded by a preposition. Examples: EP: Hoje ele levantou-se cedo. BP: Hoje ele se levantou ...
There are three livros de linhagens ('lineage books') from medieval Portugal: [1] Livro Velho de Linhagens (1286–1290), fragmentary; Livro de Linhagens do Deão (1343) Livro de Linhagens do Conde Dom Pedro (c. 1344)
João Rodrigues's epithet "Tçuzu" was an early Portuguese transcription of his Japanese descriptor Tsūji (Japanese: 通事, "the Interpreter").It distinguished him from a contemporary João Rodrigues [] in the Jesuits' China mission.
Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, [6] and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau.
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was born on 6 November 1919 in Porto, Portugal. [1] [2] She was the daughter of Maria Amélia de Mello Breyner and João Henrique Andresen.. She had Danish ancestry on her father's side, notably her paternal great-grandfather, Jan Andresen, who had traveled alone to Porto as a boy and never left the regi