By Xenono on Friday, July 11, 2003 - 02:46 am: Edit |
Another day of Portuguese:
1. I like to buy - Eu gosto de comprar
2. I pay - Eu pago
3. If you wish - se você desejar (zek-key-zair) That is a weird one
4. I eat - eu como
5. Is there time? - há tempo?
6. Is there no money - não há dinheiro?
7. I like to drink cold water - Eu gosto de beber água gelada.
8. What do you like to eat? - o que você gosta de comer?
9. but, at what time - (need some help on this one)
10. at four - (this one, too)
11. half - meio
12. today - hoje
13. tomorrow - amanhã
14. fifteen - quinze
15. fourteen - quatorze
16. no, not today - não hoje não
I could not completely understand the time questions. Here is how I heard it.
at what time - a que horas?
at 10 - a dez
The translation tools use em. Does the em just sound like a?
By Sabio on Friday, July 11, 2003 - 10:47 am: Edit |
"If you wish" is "se voce quiser".
"At what time" is indeed "a que horas". "But, at what time?" would be "mas, a que horas?"
"At 10 (o'clock)" is "as dez" or "as dez horas" (with a backward accent on the a of as). Similar for "at 4" or any other number except 1: "at 1 o'clock" is "a uma" or "a uma hora" (again with backward accent on the a).
14 is catorze.
em is a translation of at, but not in the time context. em is just a nasalized e (per my post in the previous lesson).
By Sman on Friday, July 11, 2003 - 02:39 pm: Edit |
Xenono
Quiser is pronounced only (key-zair) there is no (zek) sound as in your example "(zek-key-zair)"
By Xenono on Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 12:49 am: Edit |
Sabio, once again, thanks so much for the help.
That clarifies things a lot. Am I hearing an "and" for the half past times like 8:30?
"as oito e meio" or it is just "as oito meio?"
Sman, thanks for the quiser pronunciation. I was hearing the zek for some reason at the end of the você and the beginning of quiser so it was sounding like vo-say zek-key-zair to me.
By Sabio on Saturday, July 12, 2003 - 10:29 am: Edit |
Xenono:
as oito e meia (meia, not meio, because hora is feminine. Again, there is a backward accent on the a of as).