Advanced Portuguese phrasings.

By James Hall / / Advanced Portuguese Grammar

My wife just asked me to translate this from English to Portuguese.

'What?', I said.

Turns out, 'Juweet' = 'did you eat?'

Oh. And we say it all the time. True.

It reminded me of the many, many confusing Portuguese language-transformations /convolutions that I hear every day. If you're trying to get to an advanced Portuguese level, you need to get phrasing like these examples.

Let's break-some-down:

deixa eu ver >> xo-vê
quero ir embora >> queimbora
vamos embora >> bora
vocês viram? >> cêsviram?
você ligou? >> cêligo?
o que é que ela falou? >> Que-que ele falou?
para eu ver >> pr'euvê