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Sentence

O nosso guia era um jovem muito viajado.

Translation

Our guide was a much travelled young man.



Analysis


o
     1. art. the masculine singular definite article
     2. pron. him, it (as a direct object; as an indirect object, see lhe; after prepositions, see ele)
nosso
     1. pron. first-personplural possessive pronoun our; ours
guia
     1. n. guide (person)
     2. n-f. leash (for an animal)
     3. n-m. guide (written explanation)
     4. v. verb form of guiar
era
     1. n-f. era (time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year)
     2. n-f. (archaeology) age (period of human prehistory)
     3. n-f. (geology) era (unit of time, smaller than aeons and greater than periods)
     4. v. verb form of ser
     ser
          1. v. (copulative) to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality
          2. v. to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)
          3. v. (auxiliary) to be (forms the passive voice)
          4. v. (impersonal) to be (indicates a point in time)
          5. v. (indtr, em, -another locational preposition) to be in (to be located in)
          6. v. (indtr, de) to be from (to have as one’s place of origin)
          7. v. (indtr, de) to be (someone’s); to belong to
          8. v. (indtr, para, aux=personal infinitive, .transitive, .or) to be for; to be to (to have as its purpose)
          9. v. (indtr, para, .impersonal, aux=personal infinitive) to be supposed to; should (introduces an expected or demanded action)
          10. v. to be; to cost (to be worth a given amount of money)
          11. v. to happen; to take place; to occur
          12. v. (indtr, por, a favor de, contra) to be against or in favour of
          13. v. (poetic, intransitive) to exist; to be
          14. v. (impersonal, transitive) used for emphasis
          15. n-m. being (a living creature)
um
     1. num. one
     2. art. (indefinite) a, an
     3. art.          (in the plural) some; a few (a small number of)
     4. art.          (with unnouns) a bit of
     5. art.          (usually in the feminine, pronounced slowly, emphatically and with a high intonation) (indicates that what follows is exceptional); quite a; quite the
     6. n-m. the figure or digit "1": one
     7. pron. form of
     8. pron. a person; one; someone
     9. pron. element(s) of a previously mentioned class: one; some (in plural)
jovem
     1. adj. young, youthful
     2. n. youngster (young person)
muito
     1. det. much; many; a lot of; lots of
     2. det. too much; too many (an excessive amount of)
     3. pron. form of
     4. pron. much; many; a lot; lots
     5. pron. too much; too many
     6. adv. very; a lot; very much (to a great extent or degree)
viajado
     1. adj. travelled
     2. adj. (slang) far-fetched; logically consistent and making sense grammatically, and yet somewhat unrealistic, absurd, improbable, or overly conjectural; seeming to have been said by a person under the influ
     3. Participle. past participle of viajar
     viajar
          1. v. to travel
          2. v. (Brazil, subjective) to not pay attention
          3. v. (Brazil, colloquial) to be nonsensical (vid. viajado)




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