Diário De Uma Quarent(o)ena I

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• Excelente. Realmente muito interessante. A voz é bonita e justa além disso. Muito obrigada a toda a equipe por esta linda mensagem. Em uma situação de crise, alguns mostram sua baixeza ainda melhor, enquanto outros mostram a sua própria grandeza. É essa grandeza que faz a beleza da vida.
  Se você tiver tempo, ficaria muito grata se você pudesse corrigir meus erros mais importantes. Eu sei que os erros são ótimos professores. Eles não me assustam, são os meus amigos que me ajudam a aprender :).
  Desejo-lhe o melhor possível, Cuide-se. Até breve .=)

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  • Obrigado pela bonita mensagem, e muito bem escrita! Não há praticamente nada a corrigir, senão a escolha da palavra ‘justa’ que me parece uma tradução muito direta da palavra francesa juste 🙂 Em português, é mais provável dizermos que é uma voz ‘afinada’, ‘limpa’ ou ‘bem colocada’, por exemplo.

    Aproveito a oportunidade para te recomendar o nosso fórum, onde alguns membros participam regularmente em português e também aproveitam para receber correções: Fórum Practice Portuguese

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• I have queries Joseph , que se iniciou, que se means ‘”which”? Que trabalhar , que means “who” here? Para que os passamos? Os means “them’?
  após os termos usado? Os means them again, does os always mean them before a verb? Muito confusão, Alan.

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  • Olá, Alan. “Que” is a veeery versatile word with several different uses and possible meanings. You really have to look at the full context whenever you come across this word, or you’ll be confused a lot of the time.

    In those two cases you pointed out (“que se iniciou” and “que trabalha”), “que” is working as a relative pronoun, so it’s always linking back to the subject that appeared just before. In “que se iniciou”, “que” is replacing “quarentena”, so it translates to “which”. In “que trabalha”, “que” is replacing “Pedro”, so it translates to “who”. You also see the word “que” translated as “that” several times throughout the rest of the Shorty.

    Regarding “os”, yes, most times (but not always) it means “them” when it comes before a verb, because it’s working as a direct object pronoun. These two Learning Notes might help:
    – Introduction to Clitic Pronouns
    – Clitic Pronouns: 3rd Person

    Finally, going back to “que se iniciou”, I just wanted to point out that the little word “se” is a reflexive pronoun, as if you were saying that the quarantine started itself. This is because in Portuguese, the verb iniciar (to start) usually applies to one person or thing starting something else. For example, “O professor inicia a aula” (The teacher starts the class). In this case, it’s like you were saying “A quarentena iniciou a quarentena” (The quarantine started the quarantine). Since it’s circling back to itself, this becomes “A quarentena iniciou-se” (The quarantine started itself). That’s where the “se” comes from.
    More on reflexive pronouns here: Reflexive Pronouns

    This is a LOT of information to take in! So take your time and just go through one topic at a time, if it helps 🙂

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• Olá! Na última frase, porque é que usa-se “achei” em vez de “acho”? A autora não acha assim agora?

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  • Olá, Hana. Neste caso, ela diz “sempre achei” porque quer dizer que já tem essa opinião desde o passado. Pelo contexto, percebe-se que essa opinião continua válida agora 🙂

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• I don’t understand the following paragraph from 01:37 to 01:54:
  “Consiste numa esponja colada em todos os andares e dentro de cada elevador onde estão espetados vários palitos. Dentro do elevador, existe também uma caixinha para que os possamos descartar após os termos usado para carregar nos botões.”
  Translation:
  “It consists of a sponge glued on every floor and inside each elevator where several sticks are stuck. Inside the elevator, there is also a little box so that we can discard them after we’ve used them to push the buttons.”

  What I mean is I have difficulty imagining how this system works in actions. English is my third language so I still couldn’t understand it even after I looked at the English translation. Can you explain the system step-by-step?

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  • Olá! Maybe this will help:
    1. A sponge is glued in the elevator and also on every floor of the building.
    2. Several sticks (like toothpicks) are inserted into the sponge.
    3. People can take a stick from the sponge to press the elevator buttons on each floor and inside the elevator itself, avoiding direct contact with their fingers.
    4. After using the stick to press the buttons, there’s a small box inside the elevator where the used sticks can be discarded.

    There were some very creative solutions to minimize physical contact during the height of the pandemic. Consistent hand washing/sanitizing seems more practical 🙂

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    • Your explanation is intuitive. Thanks!

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