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added by Luiz Vieira Jun 7 '14 at 13:18

Significa "maneiro" e pronuncia-se "fiche" – Jorge B. Nov 27 '14 at 16:39

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added by Guilherme Oderdenge May 14 '14 at 18:16

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added by Math May 28 '14 at 1:12

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added by Filipe.Fonseca May 27 '14 at 14:35

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added by Bonifacio2 Jun 6 '14 at 12:01

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added by Andrey Jul 7 '14 at 11:46

Tu pode ou tu é não se diz em Portugal, e acho que deverias ser considerado errado, visto que também se diz ele ou ela é. Não tem muito sentido conjugar as duas diferentes pessoas na mesma maneira. – delete Jan 4 '15 at 13:59

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added by unknownprotocol Aug 12 '14 at 4:23

If you are in a city/state that has borders with spanish-speaking countries (I live in one) it's preferred to speak spanish. In other states people are just not used to hear spanish, but english is heard everywhere. So it may be easier to understand a language they know (english), than one they are not used to (spanish), even if it sound very similar. – gmauch Jan 8 '15 at 20:14

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added by starsplusplus Nov 19 '14 at 15:51

	Since the last orthographic agreement (1990), the portuguese alphabet has the same 26 letters as the english alphabet (except Angola). – Bacco Jan 10 '15 at 21:21
	@Bacco These are example questions intended to define the scope of the site. It's not recommended we answer them at this stage, but if the proposal makes it to beta, you can ask the question and answer it then. – starsplusplus Jan 12 '15 at 13:07
	@starsplusplus Thanks for the advice, but I've just posted the comment to alert about the current situation, as I don't know if you proposed the question aware of the obsolecence of it, or on purpose. – Bacco Jan 12 '15 at 13:17
	@Bacco I was not aware of it (and I was interested to hear :) ). I think your comment (with maybe some detail on the historical situation too) would answer the question if it was asked on the full site though. – starsplusplus Jan 12 '15 at 13:25

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added by Flimzy Dec 14 '14 at 1:35

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added by Mateus Dec 24 '14 at 11:57

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added by Mateus Dec 24 '14 at 12:40

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added by Lucas Soares, edited by Earthliŋ Aug 20 '14 at 20:18

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added by Lucas Soares Jul 10 '14 at 13:34

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added by Math Feb 7 '14 at 0:06

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added by Victor Stafusa Feb 7 '14 at 9:04

Translation to English doesn't seem on-topic for a site about Portuguese. If you just need to understand the meaning of the phrase, though, that's a different question--but you should be willing to accept an answer completley in portuguese (perhaps then forming your own English translation). – Flimzy May 19 '14 at 5:36

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added by Filipe.Fonseca Mar 27 '14 at 12:33

I think "Why does »Att.« being the abbreviation of »atenciosamente« have a double T?" is a better question. – Earthliŋ Apr 9 '14 at 15:23

I've posted five questions already, so anyone can feel free to post a modified version of this question. – Earthliŋ Jul 5 '14 at 14:08

Filipe, pq não segue a sugestão do Earthlin e altera sua pergunta? Me parece que vai fazer mais sucesso. – Math Oct 25 '14 at 17:51

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added by Snox Apr 29 '14 at 14:09

@Earthliŋ: Because you know the full word, but need a shorter version of it to fit into a confined space, for instance. – Flimzy May 19 '14 at 5:33

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added by Maniero May 19 '14 at 1:19

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added by Maniero May 19 '14 at 1:21

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added by Flimzy May 20 '14 at 18:38

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added by Filipe.Fonseca May 27 '14 at 14:36

I think that there are good and not so good etymology questions. If this question gets 10 upvotes, this suggests we should accept any question of this form. Do we really want questions like "Qual é a etimologia da palavra casa?"? Many of these would just be answered by "It's from Latin [parabola]". – Earthliŋ Jun 8 '14 at 1:21

I'd suggest to replace the placeholder [palavra] with a word, which has an interesting non-obvious etymology. – Earthliŋ Jun 8 '14 at 1:23

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added by Earthliŋ Jun 6 '14 at 14:01

For example, fenômeno vs. fenómeno. – Earthliŋ Jun 7 '14 at 0:23

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added by Luiz Vieira Jun 7 '14 at 13:33

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added by Luciano Jun 20 '14 at 18:35

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added by Helmut Jul 6 '14 at 20:04

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added by Lucas Soares Jul 10 '14 at 12:58

(Note that Galician is as much Celtic as Portuguese is. Both come from galaico-português.) – ANeves Dec 30 '14 at 16:39

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added by unknownprotocol Aug 12 '14 at 4:18

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added by unknownprotocol Aug 12 '14 at 6:10

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added by Guilherme J Santos Aug 29 '14 at 17:11

Português é o idioma oficial em 7 países distribuídos em 3 continentes diferentes (Brasil, Portugal, Moçambique, Angola, Guiné-Bissau, Cabo Verde e São Tomé e Príncipe), além de ser falado em mais alguns territórios na Ásia e Oceania (Goa, Macau e Timor Leste). Perguntas como esta, que mencionam usos do idioma que podem variar de país para país deveriam explicitar sobre qual país (ou no mínimo a qual dialeto se PT-BR ou PT-PT) se referem. – gmauch Jan 9 '15 at 17:12

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added by Ookami Oct 8 '14 at 17:55

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added by Maniero Oct 26 '14 at 16:17

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added by starsplusplus Nov 19 '14 at 15:44

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added by mgibsonbr Nov 28 '14 at 6:50

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added by jitsCode May 19 '14 at 8:30

I don't think this question should be downvoted. It is an interesting one. – Bonifacio2 Jul 19 '14 at 14:17

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added by hippietrail Mar 31 '14 at 8:22

So this Stack Exchange won't be welcoming to Spanish speaking Portuguese learners. Sad. )-: – hippietrail Aug 28 '14 at 9:36

Maybe the problem with your question is not that it is asked from the perspective of a Spanish-speaking learner of Portuguese, but rather that it is broad, in that it is asking for a (probably subjective) list of mistakes made by some Spanish-speaking learners of Portuguese... – Earthliŋ Sep 9 '14 at 1:13

So there are no objective mistakes everybody agrees on? How very different from most other language pairs! The main one I know is the difference between gostar and gustar where the subject and object positions are reversed. But I'm not a Spanish speaker learning Portuguese. I'm an English speaker who learned Spanish and has an interest in Portuguese. Many if not most people in this category end up speaking Portunol. Apparently we have to know each gotcha before we are allowed to ask about it? – hippietrail Sep 9 '14 at 1:23