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The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language) is a major reference dictionary for the Portuguese language, edited by Brazilian writer Antônio Houaiss. The dictionary was composed by a team of two hundred lexicographers from several countries. The project started in 1986 and was finished in 2000 ...
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The second part is the Tupi–Portuguese dictionary itself, containing nearly eight thousand entry words (or lexemes), making it the most complete Tupi dictionary ever compiled to date. The third part includes a list of two thousand words from Brazilian Portuguese that have their origins in Tupi (mostly place and city names).
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Portuguese is a null subject language, meaning that it permits and sometimes mandates the omission of an explicit subject. In Portuguese, the grammatical person of the subject is generally reflected by the inflection of the verb. Sometimes, though an explicit subject is not necessary to form a grammatically correct sentence, one may be stated ...
In Brazilian Portuguese, only American and British-style quote marks are used. “Isto é um exemplo de como fazer uma citação em português brasileiro.” “This is an example of how to make a quotation in Brazilian Portuguese.” In both varieties of the language, dashes are normally used for direct speech rather than quotation marks: