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Costumavam tomar chá todo dia às cinco horas.

Translation

They used to drink tea every day at five o'clock



Analysis


costumavam
     1. v. verb form of costumar
tomar
     1. v. to take (to get something into one’s possession or control)
     2. v.          to take; to conquer (to seize control of a location)
     3. v.          to steal (to take something illegally)
     4. v. to take; to receive (to be the victim of an interaction)
     5. v. to put into practice
     6. v. (indtr, por, ditr=1) to take for; to consider; to regard (to have a certain opinion about someone or something)
     7. v. to take into the body
     8. v.          to drink (to ingest a liquid)
     9. v.          to drink (to consume alcoholic beverages, especially habitually)
     10. v.          to take (to use a medicine)
     11. v. to take; to experience, undergo
chá
     1. n-m. tea plant (Camellia sinensis, a bush whose leaves are used to make tea)
     2. n-m. tea (drink made by infusing parts of plants)
     3. n-m. a late afternoon meal
     4. n-m. (slang) any drug made by infusing a substance
todo
     1. det. every; all (all of a group)
     2. det. whole, entire
     3. adj. whole, entire
     4. n-m. whole (something complete)
     5. adv. (degree) (intensifier)
dia
     1. n-m. day
     2. n-m.          period between sunrise and sunset
     3. n-m.         * 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
     4. n-m.         *: , Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente
     5. n-m.         *:: The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East
     6. n-m.          period from midnight to the following midnight
     7. n-m.          period of 24 hours
     8. n-m.         * 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:
     9. n-m.         *: , Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua
     10. n-m.         *:: But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness
     11. n-m.          (astronomy) rotational period of a planet
     12. n-m.          (in phrases) date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person
     13. n-m.          (in phrases) a unspecified period of time either in the past or in the future
     14. adv. occurring on the specified day of the month
às
     1. contraction. contraction of;a as;;to the (feminine plural);nodot=1: feminine plural of ao
cinco
     1. num. five
     2. n-m. five
horas
     1. n. plural of hora
     hora
          1. n-f. hour (period of sixty minutes)
          2. n-f. time (point in time)




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