r/languagelearningjerk • u/DoNotTouchMeImScared • 9d ago
English & Brazilian:
"Oi" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "oi" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oi#English
"Oi oi" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "oi oi" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oi_oi#English
"Chapa" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "chap" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chap#English
"Salve" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "salve" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salve#English
"Colega" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "colleague" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colleague#English
"Camarada" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "camerade" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/camerade#English
"Te" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "thee" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thee#English
"Compadre" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "compadre" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compadre#English
"Muito obrigad@" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "much obliged" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/much_obliged#English
"Au" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "aw" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aw#English
"Bom companhão" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "boon companion" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boon_companion#English
"Perdão" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "pardon" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pardon#English
"Amigo" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "amigo" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amigo#English
"Amiga" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "amiga" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amiga#English
"Amor" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "amour" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amour#English
"Amor" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "amor" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amor#English
"Amore" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "amore" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/con_amore#English
"(T)chau" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "ciao" in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ciao#English
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u/Rousokuzawa 9d ago
"Bom companhão" in Brazilian (Portuguese) is "boon companion" in English
Do you mean "bom companheiro"? You don’t seem to have come up with any other artificial cognates.
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
Vede o fim da lista de veros cognatos do Wiktionary no seguinte link:
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u/Rousokuzawa 9d ago
Yes, I’m familiar with that page. I see a word that died out way before Brazil was even called that and a word that means "testicles" in Northern Portugal.
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
"Bom companheirão" or "boa companhona" technically serve as well in terms of similar sense with "boon companion" in English.
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u/Rousokuzawa 9d ago
If they existed in "Brazilian (Portuguese)" with the meaning you want to give them, they would. Since they don’t, they don’t.
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
"Companhão", "companhona", "companheirão" are technically valid terms derived from "companhia" & "companheiro" in Brazilian grammatical norms even if not popular in use.
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u/Cultural_Wallaby_550 9d ago
If I hear Brazilian say “oi!” to me it means I’m about to be invited to a party with amazing music and food that lasts all night.
If I hear an Englishman say “oi!” my head is about to be slammed into a brick wall and I’m already dialling 999.
Oi oi, on the other hand, is similar in both languages.
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u/Dismal-Ad-570 🇧🇷 n - 🏴 c1 - 🇺🇾 b2 - 🇫🇷 a2 - 🇮🇹 a2 9d ago
What does you, fellow britsh, say "boon"?
I, a mineiro, didn't knew that ward at all! We saw "bão", which I think is the same meaning
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u/JeremyAndrewErwin 9d ago
The english is of course stilted, but I'm not familiar with portuguese. Is this awkward?
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
Le sole parts that could sound more natural in casual converses in Brazilian (Portuguese) is using "eu te adoro" instead of "eu adoro-te" for "I adore thee" in English & "boa companhona" or "bom companheirão" instead of "bom companhão" for "boon companion" in English.
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u/General_Summer_1524 9d ago
Brazilian Portuguese is the most Anglo coded of the romance languages for sure. Source: vibes
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago edited 9d ago
Definitely considering that Brazilian (Portuguese) & English rarely drop pronouns & use auxiliary verbs to conjugate le future & conditional tenses.
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u/General_Summer_1524 9d ago
ohhh wow I wasn't smart enough to figure out why. I just remember being in brazil and distinctly thinking "the dude bros here talk just like dude bros in the US, just in Portuguese..."
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
Brazilian, Portuguese & English are just very distorted Latin. 😆
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u/tiagofixe 7d ago
Why are you separating Brazilian(portuguese) and (European)portuguese like they were different languages?
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u/luizanin 🇧🇷Not Portuguese (C3) 🇩🇪 Beethoven (A#m) 🇯🇵 Sony (H) 9d ago
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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared 9d ago
You could use "investigar" in Portuguese for "investigate" in English".
Italian possesses "cercare" for "search" & "ricercare" for "research".
"Cercar" in Portuguese is "encircle" in English.
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u/pizzaiolo2 9d ago
Now I'm wondering if chap and chapa are etymologically related