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O Jardim da Sereia

The Mermaid Garden

O Jardim da Sereia

The Mermaid Garden

A hidden gem in the center of Coimbra, Sereia Garden is a beautiful park filled with interesting sculptures, many species...

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  • 00:00:03Em Coimbra, há um lugar conhecido como o Jardim da Sereia. In Coimbra, there is a place known as Sereia Garden (the Mermaid's Garden).
  • 00:00:07O seu nome verdadeiro é o Parque de Santa Cruz, Its real name is Santa Cruz Park,
  • 00:00:11mas já ninguém lhe chama isso. but nobody calls it that anymore.
  • 00:00:13É um espaço verde, com árvores de todas as espécies. It is a green space, with trees of all species.
  • 00:00:17Há cedros, há pinheiros, There are cedars, there are pine trees,
  • 00:00:20e há até uma árvore chamada tuia-da-china. and there is even a tree called Chinese arborvitae.
  • 00:00:24Como o nome indica, As the name implies,
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  • Looking at the picture of the fountain, the merman seems to be opening the mouth of the fish, not his own. But the sentence says “…um tritão a abrir a boca a um peixe” or as the translation says “a merman opening his mouth to a fish.” Which, wouldn’t that mean that he’s basically just opening his own mouth in the presence of a fish? So, why isn’t the sentence “…a abrir a boca DUM peixe”?

    • Olá 🙂 The sentence uses the preposition “a” instead of “de”, but the practical meaning is still just about the same (the English translation had a mistake and has already been corrected – sorry about that!). The small nuance between one preposition and another is that by saying “…de um peixe” or “…dum peixe”, we’re saying that he’s opening the mouth OF a fish. On the other hand, by saying “…a um peixe”, we’re saying he’s doing it TO a fish. Two ways of expressing the same general idea.

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