Eliana
Rui- Dona Ana: Senhor Alberto, como estĂĄ? Dona Ana: Mr. Alberto, how are you?
- Senhor Alberto: Muito bem, Dona Ana. Mr. Alberto: Very well, Dona Ana.
- E a senhora? And you?
- Dona Ana: Estou bem. Dona Ana: I'm fine.
- Mas vi uma cena triste no autocarro. But I saw a sad scene on the bus.
- Senhor Alberto: Aquele que acabou de passar? Mr. Alberto: The one that just passed?
- Dona Ana: Sim, o que vai para o aeroporto. Dona Ana: Yes, the one that goes to the airport.
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Vocabulary
acalmar-seto calm oneself down o aeroportoairport atrasadolate, delayed sing.,masc. atråsbehind, back o autocarrobus o aviãoairplane a bagagemluggage o bilheteticket a cenathing, stuff, scene (literal) cheiafull sing.,fem. coitadopoor thing, poor guy expressing sympathy comboiostrains depoislater, then, after o destinodestination desviodetour o elétricotram encontradofound entregarto deliver, submit estaçãostation a estradaroad estrangeiroabroad, foreign a grevestrike noun gritarto shout, to scream o horårioschedule IdosaElderly o lugarplace, seat malassuitcases, luggage, bags o meiothe middle o motoristadriver masc. nuncanever paradostopped sing.,masc. a paragemstop e.g. bus stop a partidadeparture o percursoroute, path, journey perderto lose, miss, waste o porãocargo hold a reservareservation ricarichfem. simpåticofriendly, nice sing.,masc. taxistastaxi drivers tristesad sing. vergonhashame, embarrassment, disgrace
Expressions
Que tristeHow sad ao lado denext to De repentesuddenly Ainda por cimaOn top of that, Moreover Ă a vidaSuch is life, That's life Uns ganham, uns perdemSome win, some lose Nessa alturaAt that time, Back then junto anext to, beside, alongside, near
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Comments
Haha. A senhora fala pelos cotovelos đ
Gostei muito desta histĂłria curta.
What does you say at the end? Sobe no a cabeça â or something like that. I canât understand just that bit.
ââŠsĂł abanou a cabeçaâ â he just shook his head
Wow â that was quick! Thank you very much, Molly. Neither I could catch that, nor could the Google automatic translation tool do it. Much appreciated!
Take care!
Chris
No problem! đ
Difficult to follow the story â especially with only one person talking. I even used the translate function but lost track of what actually happened.
Thanks for the feedback on this! Weâll keep it in mind for future episodes. I think youâre right that with the rambling way this story unfolds, it would be a little hard to follow in any language!
I found it very funny, the story, and not particularly difficult to follow.
I enjoyed this story â it introduces a lot of vocabulary and caught a personality and tone. I found it fast with a lot of vocabulary, and I appreciated it a lot. I am trying to understand more of what I hear and I believe these stories are helping a lot. Sometimes I actually understand when people talk to me â but still not as often as I would like.
I noticed that at 2:15 you use âvocĂȘâ to refer to the senhora. Arenât we supposed to avoid that in European Portuguese these days? Thanks.
âVocĂȘâ can be used selectively without insult, but itâs not so easy to develop an understanding of which contexts or people (since it also depends on personal sensitivities) allow for it, so to keep it safe, we do recommend avoiding it in general. In the context of this dialogue, âvocĂȘâ is acceptable by the fact that itâs a casual conversation between two people who know each other well enough and are presumably around the same age bracket đ
Got it. Muita obrigada!
I lost track of the story at the word âgreveâ. When listening to spoken portuguese, all is well until I hear a new word and my brain takes a tumble and I lose track of what is being said. LOL
Hi, why is it âprimeira classeâ with 1st occuring before, and then âclasse economiaâ where the type of class occurs after. Is this a general rule and idiom or is it due to one being a numerical order and one being an economic, non-numerical order? Thanks.
Like you said, ordinal numbers (primeira, segunda, terceiraâŠ) go first đ âEconĂłmicaâ does not fit into that, so it stays after the noun.
Hi
Just tried this for the first time. The technical upgrades that have been made to the shorties to allow selective sentences to be highlighted, translated, replayed etc are wonderful! Managed to get through it without switching on the English full time.
OlĂĄ, Ian! Thank you so much for the positive feedback. Weâre really happy to hear that youâre enjoying the new interface đ
ninguém defendeu o motorista ou disse à senhora para se acalmar
Why is se before acalmar and not after?
In the presence of most prepositions (except âaâ), itâs generally acceptable to place object pronouns either before the verb (enclitic placement) or after (proclitic placement). Because the enclitic placement in these cases is optional, not mandatory, prepositions are not formally considered âmagneticâ words, but theyâre sometimes treated as such â thatâs the case here with the preposition âparaâ.