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  2. Portuguese grammar - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Portuguese writers - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Dom Casmurro - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Personal pronouns in Portuguese - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Livros de linhagens - Wikipedia

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    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)

  7. João Rodrigues Tçuzu - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Portuguese language - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen - Wikipedia

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    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