Eliana- Confinada, mas ainda a matutar na pergunta Confined, but still mulling over the question
- "O que posso fazer eu para ajudar?”, "What can I do to help?"
- decidi sentar-me na varanda I decided to sit on the balcony
- e desfrutar do nascer do dia. and enjoy the sunrise.
- Aproveito para dar os bons dias à vizinha andorinha. I take the opportunity to bid good morning to the neighbour swallow.
- Ela começou o dia a chilrear She started the day chirping
- e a espalhar a sua alegria pelas ruas silenciosas! and spreading her joy through the quiet streets!
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Vocabulary
a alegriajoy AmolecidosSoftened a andorinhaswallow bird apontarto aim, note, jot down, point out O arAir, demeanor chilrearto chirp, tweet coitadopoor thing, poor guy expressing sympathy concentrarto concentrate ConfinadaConfined CriandoCreating desfrutarto enjoy, experience Despensapantry DispersosDispersed, scattered ErradoWrong espalharto spread espirrarto sneeze o estômagostomach a fomehunger frustradafrustrated sing.,fem. leoalioness LevezaLevity, lightheartedness, lightness matutarto mull over MeandrosIntricacies, meanderings memóriamemory a máscaramask o pacotepackage, packet, carton percorrerto traverse, roam, cover reagirto react, respond RiniteRhinitis rirto laugh roncarto grunt, snore, make a pig sound sofrerto suffer tentarto try a varandabalcony
Expressions
P'raShorthand version of "para" used in speech Nascer do diaSunrise (Birth of the day) Não dá p'ra fazer omeletes sem ovosCan't make omelets without breaking eggs Conto contigoI'm counting on you
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Comments
What a delicious fluency. Now this is definitely a form of poetry.
Os meus parabéns!
Please help me understand the construction of this sentence. “O que posso fazer eu para ajudar?”,
It is the repeat of “Eu” (being implied in “posso”) which I do not understand.
Does “ O que Eu posso fazer para ajudar” work too?
It does feel repetitive/redundant, but in fact, the subject is only added once, albeit inverted with the main verbs. It’s simply a stylistic variation; it makes it all sound extra polite and refined 🙂 All other variations are fine too:
– O que (é que) posso fazer para ajudar?
– O que (é que) eu posso fazer para ajudar?
– O que (é que) posso eu fazer para ajudar?
Wouldn’t a better translation be “he (Pedro) apologizes right away”?
In this case he doesn’t exactly apologize. He just justifies his sneezing with the fact that he suffers from rhinitis.
It could also be “he justifies immediately” or “he justifies right away”.
Anyway, there are always several ways of translating the same idea. 🙂