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Querida, Perdi A Carteira

Honey, I Lost My Wallet

Rodrigo lost his wallet again and Márcia is helping him look for it. Throughout the dialogue, notice the different uses of the preposition “em” and how it forms contractions with many other words such as in noutro, nela, no, etc.

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  • 00:00:03Rodrigo: Querida, viste a minha carteira?
  • 00:00:05Márcia: Está no aparador da entrada.
  • 00:00:07Rodrigo: Não, não está lá. Devo ter pegado nela e agora não me lembro onde a deixei.
  • 00:00:12Márcia: Viste em cima da mesa de jantar?
  • 00:00:15Rodrigo: Também não está lá.
  • 00:00:16Márcia: Nos bolsos do casaco?
  • 00:00:18Rodrigo: Vi… não está lá.
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o aparadorsideboard, buffet assimthus, therefore, accordingly, like that, so atrasadolate, delayed sing.,masc. os bolsospockets CabeçaHead as calçaspants trousers a carteirawallet o casacocoat as coisasthings here general enquantowhile, as long as, whereas EntãoSo, Then Hall de entradaFoyer, entrance hall ontemyesterday a paciênciapatience pousarto land, alight, stay, put procurarto search, to look for, to seek quandowhen QuartoRoom, bedroom QueridaDear, honey fem., term of endearment salaroom, living room tãoas, so, such a verto see, to look, to watch
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em cima deon top of, above em casaat home Em vez deInstead of Pegado emPicked up às vezessometimes Está bemAll right, Okay, It’s fine Onde será que a pousei?Where did I put it?, Where could I have put itfem. down?
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Comments

  • I love your lessons, it could be nice though if there would be audio also for vocabulary section in here : )

  • Nice dialogue.

    When Rodrigo says – Não precisas falar assim – I thought I could hear de after precisas – is that a possibility or is precisar always without de?

    • You’re right, Shona, he says “Não precisas de falar assim” –> we just missed the “de” on the transcript, but it’s already been added, thanks! In European Portuguese, we pretty much always use the preposition “de” after the verb precisar. In Brazilian Portuguese, this preposition is mostly absent. This is to say that grammatically speaking, both ways are acceptable, but the actual use of each one depends on the Portuguese variant.

  • Hi gang. In the transcript, Rodrigo says “e agora não me lembro onde a deixei.” There should be a “de” after “me lembro,” correct?

    • Hey, Howard. The preposition ‘de’ can be added, but is often omitted before interrogative adverbs or pronouns such as ‘onde’, ‘quando’, ‘quem’, ‘quantas’ or ‘porque’.

    • Olá! Visto e pegado são formas do particípio passado (past participle) dos verbos ver e pegar. O verbo ter é apenas um auxiliar. Ter visto = (to) have seen. Ter pegado = (to) have picked up

  • I seem to learn like a parrot 🐦. Is it possible to stop after each phrase so I can repeat the phrase before continuing to the next phrase

    • Great idea for speaking practice! If you’re on a computer, you can hit the space bar to quickly stop and start the audio. If you’re on mobile, you can tap the play/pause button. If you want to replay what you just heard, you can use the 10 seconds back button. I hope that helps!

  • Onde será que a pousei? looks like a useful construction – maybe add that to expressions sop it goes into smart review ?

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