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Pedro- Funcionária: Muito bom dia! Employee: [A] very good morning [to you]!
- Hélder: Bom dia! Hélder: Good morning!
- Funcionária: Em que posso ajudá-lo? Employee: How can I help you?
- Hélder: Acho que vai gostar muito de ouvir isto – Quero adotar um dos vossos gatinhos! Hélder: I think you will love to hear this – I want to adopt one of your kittens!
- Funcionária: Isso são ótimas notícias! Já estamos a ficar sem espaço no gatil, Employee: That is great news! We are already running out of space in the cattery,
- e hoje em dia ninguém quer adotar estas belezas. and nowadays nobody wants to adopt these beauties.
- Hélder: Pois bem, hoje vai ser o dia de sorte de uma destas bolas de pelo! Hélder: Well, today will be the lucky day for one of these furballs!
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Vocabulary
BelezasBeauties Bolas de peloFurballs felicidadehappiness a folhaleaf, page, sheet Frente e versoFront and back GatilCattery GatinhosKittens as notíciasnews, news broadcasts olhoseyes pretoblack
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Comments
Hi Team: I think you’ve addressed this before, but I noticed that “gostava” was used @ 00:00:37, opposed to “gostaria”.
Can you clarify why that is? I remember Joseph providing a masterful answer to something similar not too long ago – but I can’t find it. :-/
Olá Tim. Thank you for the “masterful” bit. I don’t remember that answer, so I’ll just take your word for it, lol! But basically, over time, it became common and acceptable to use the imperfect tense (e.g. gostava) as a conditional form (= gostaria) in contexts like this, where you’re asking for something politely. In other contexts, the two tenses are not interchangeable. But here, saying “Gostava” or “Gostaria” makes no difference in terms of meaning – both are fine. “Gostava” also has the added benefit of not sounding so overly polite.
Olá Joseph – thank you very much! I’ve been watching RTP (“O Sábio” com legendas) and noticed the same thing in conversations. Thanks again for clarifying! 🙂
You’re welcome 🙂
In the vocabulary section could you add the gender for nouns that are not obvious? For instance in today’s vocabulary you include the word ‘Gatil’. But without resorting to a dictionary I don’t know what gender this noun takes. ‘Um Gatil’ or ‘o Gatil’ would be useful.
Perhaps you may have a look here:
00:00:14
Funcionária: Isso são ótimas notícias! Já estamos a ficar sem espaço no gatil,
“no gatil” então: o gatil…
You’re right that it would be useful! We’re planning to integrate all relevant information about vocabulary in an easy-to-access way in the future, but it’s still a work in progress. Meanwhile, in each shorty/podcast/video, you can see each word in context, which should usually help clarify its gender right away.