Comments on: Part I: Transitioning from Spanish to Portuguese

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:33:36 +0000

Another funny one that I was confused with in the beggining is brincar which means to jump in Spanish and to play in Portuguese

By: jorge amado

jorge amado — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:31:14 +0000

It seems atravessar is misspelled as atrevessar.

By: gika

gika — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:13:03 +0000

Another thing to pay attention that I noticed in Lucas’ post:
Example.
“Minha gata cruzou com o gato do vizinho.”
There are 2 interpretations:
1- Our cats had sexual relations.
2-My cat had sexual relations with my “beauty” neighbor.

Of course, when you say that everybody knows that you are talking about the cats, but people sometimes do that kind of joke.
“burro do meu tio”
-uncle’s donkey or uncle IS a donkey.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:17:50 +0000

Hi! I´m writting just to make clear that ‘cruzar’ means “to have relations with” only for animals. Ex. “meu gato cruzou com a gata do vizinho.” That means, my cat had relations with the neighbor´s cat. You should never say that some person ‘cruzou’ with another one.
And the verb ‘está’ in spanish should be translated to ‘está’ in portuguese too. It´s important to remember that, when the meaning is a state or mutable condition (like a illness for example), we use the verb ‘estar’, and, when the meaning is a constant condition, we use the ver ‘ser’. Example:

“Eu estou em casa” -> “I´m at home”
“Ele está doente” -> “He is sick”

“Eu sou um arquiteto” -> “I´m an architect”
“Ele é um engenheiro” -> “He is an engineering”

Best regards!