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Uma Aventura na Autocaravana

An Adventure in the Motorhome

Uma Aventura na Autocaravana

An Adventure in the Motorhome

Do you like to travel? Meet a woman who enjoys the freedom of exploring the world in a campervan!

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  • 00:00:03Uma aventura na autocaravana An adventure in a campervan
  • 00:00:07Quando chegam as férias de verão, nada é melhor do que podermos andar com a nossa casa às costas, When summer break comes, nothing is better than being able to ride around "with our house on our back",
  • 00:00:15pois, como dizem os antigos, “casa há só uma” e é nela que nós nos sentimos sempre bem. because as the old people say, “there is only one home” and that is where we always feel good.
  • 00:00:24No nosso caso, nós andamos mesmo com ela às costas, uma vez que temos uma autocaravana. In our case, we ACTUALLY carry it around on our backs, since we have a camper.
  • 00:00:32Gosto muito deste tipo de férias! I love this kind of vacation!
  • 00:00:35Assim, temos tudo o que precisamos This way, we have everything we need
  • 00:00:38e liberdade para nos aventurarmos, podendo parar onde nos apetece. and the freedom to venture out, being able to stop where we feel like.
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uma vez quesince, as Parques de campismoCampsites andar com a casa às costasto travel around from one place to another with all the belongings you packed i.e. "with your house on your back" Casa há só uma"There is only one house", There's no place like home por vezessometimes, at times
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  • I love the shorties and learn a lot, thanks. But I’m confused by the conjugation of ‘apetece’ in “podendo parar onde nos apetece”. Why is it not ‘apetecemos’?
    Thanks

    • Good question. The verb ‘apetecer’ is generally considered impersonal and used in an abstract 3rd-person form. With that verb, we are not the subject, but actually the indirect object, so there’s no agreement with ‘us’ nor with the thing we want, which would be the direct object. For example:
      1) “Apetece-nos um croissant”. Direct object: um croissant. Indirect object: -nos (we/us).

      • Thank you. So in this sentence it reads like “It feels like a croissant for us”? Are there many other impersonal verbs in Portuguese which don’t require any place holder for the “it”, like using “se”?

        • If it helps you to read the sentence like that, sure. In general, verbs that are impersonal by default are used on their own, like ‘haver’ or any verbs related to natural phenomena (amanhecer, anoitecer, entardecer, chover, nevar…). You’ll see the impersonal pronoun -se with verbs that are not treated as impersonal by default, but may be used as such in certain sentences. For example:
          – Vende-se livros. (Books on sale)
          – Trata-se de animais. (It’s animals)

    • Olá! Thanks for catching that, and sorry. The speaker did say ‘podemos reabastecer-nos de água.’ That is also the appropriate choice in context, as ‘podemos reabastecermo-nos’ is redundant and not idiomatic. It’s already been fixed 🙂

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