Rui
Sandra- Rita: Este livro é teu? Rita: Is this your book?
- Marcelo: Não, esse livro não é meu. É o livro da minha irmã. Marcelo: No, that book is not mine. It's my sister's book.
- Rita: Ah, pois. A tua irmã lê muitos livros. Os livros dela são muito interessantes. Rita: Oh, right. Your sister reads a lot of books. Her books are very interesting.
- Marcelo: Sim, são. Mas os meus livros também são interessantes! Marcelo: Yes, they are. But my books are interesting too!
- Rita: Que tipo de livros lês? Rita: What kind of books do you read?
- Marcelo: A maioria dos meus livros são sobre ciência. Tu lês livros de ciência? Marcelo: Most of my books are about science. Do you read science books?
- Rita: Não, não gosto de livros de ciência. Gosto de ler histórias sobre pessoas e relações. Rita: No, I don't like science books. I like to read stories about people and relationships.
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Vocabulary
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Comments
Should it not say “A maioria dos meus livros *é* sobre ciência” and not “são”?
Olá, Edan. In this kind of sentences with “a maioria”, you’ll see both forms of agreement often – singular (“A maioria dos… é”) and plural (“A maioria dos… são”). While the former is perhaps preferable, both are accepted.
I looked up majority as used in English and got this->
Majority on its own is singular. (However, if you write about a majority of some specified group, such as a majority of employees, you should use the plural form, are.)
It is really impressive how often new shorties are prepared and the variety of topics. Very stimulating!
Olá! Porque fala como isto ” Eu também acho o mesmo”. Posso dizer como isto ” Eu também acho mesmo”, sem “o”. Pode ser?? Já reparei muitas vezes, “o” é pronome de complemento direito ou outra coisa??
Olá, Pang. “Eu também acho o mesmo” traduz-se palavra por palavra para “I also think the same“, em inglês. Por outro lado, quando dizemos “Eu também acho mesmo“, a palavra mesmo muda de sentido – a tradução aí seria “I also really think so”. “O” é um artigo definido nesta frase. Para leres mais sobre o seu uso como pronome, podes ver, por exemplo, esta Learning Note sobre pronomes clíticos (existem vários artigos sobre pronomes clíticos que podes encontrar fazendo uma pesquisa no site): Clitic Pronouns: 3rd Person .
How come they say “os vossos gostos” and “as vossas roupas”? I thought that “os seus” and “as suas”, despite being confusing, were the correct forms for “you plural” (as well as for his/her/their).
Thanks for reading.
Seu/sua/etc are the forms for his, her, your(singular,formal), or their. Vosso/vossa/etc are the forms for you(plural). So basically the seu forms apply to everything that gets conjugated in the 3rd person, except for vocês. (More info here: Possessives)
The pronunciation of Sandra. Is it normal that people talk like Sandra (Rita)? Even I repeat the sentence 100 times, you can see that she has omitted almost a sound in most of the words in the sentence. I jus don’t think i can understand what she said without the transcript.
This is quite common in regular, everyday speech unfortunately. It can be very tough to understand when someone is not slowing down and enunciating for you, and you’ll find it easier to understand some speakers more than others. But don’t worry, it does get easier over time as you get more and more exposure to the language. This video might help to understand some of the patterns: Mystery of the Disappearing Sounds.