Ascender - to rise/climb
Acender - to light
ie. Acender uma vela - To light a candle
Acender a luz - To turn on the light
Saturday, 28 March 2015
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Brazilian Pop Culture: Protesting #30
This isn’t a government, this is a joke!
Literally, “Government? [Calling it by] that name is hilarious/a joke”.
Even more literally, “Government? That name is a comedy”.
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #80
Criar caso - To create [a] case
To be outright trying to start a problem where there isn’t one (ie an argument).
Interestingly, caso is also a colloquial term for “story” or “tale” - which means this term can also be translated as “to create a story.”
Criar can also mean “to raise” (as in “to raise a child”), so yet another alternative translation could be “to raise a story.”
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Monday, 16 March 2015
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