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Abdiquei meu direito à herança em favor de meus filhos.

Translation

I have given up my right of inheritance in favour of my sons.



Analysis


abdiquei
     1. v. verb form of abdicar
meu
     1. det. first-person possessive pronoun
     2. det.          pertaining or belonging to me; my
     3. det.          that serves or interests me; my
     4. det.          introduced by me; my
     5. det.          merited by me; my
     6. det.          related to me; my
     7. pron. form of f=minha
     8. pron. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)
     9. interj. (Portugal, Brazil, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
     10. interj. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
     11. interj. (Portugal) Dude
direito
     1. n-m. law (body of rules and standards to be applied by courts)
     2. adj. right (toward the right side; right-hand)
     3. adj. right (complying with justice, correctness or reason; correct)
     4. adj. right (fit for purpose; appropriate; right)
     5. adj. (politics) right, right-wing (pertaining to the political right)
à
     1. contraction. contraction of;a a;;to the;nodot=1: feminine singular of ao
     2. prep. misspelling of a
     3. prep. forms adverbs meaning "in a manner related or resembling"
     4. prep. clipping of à moda de
     5. prep. accented preposition, the preposition a is accented when it comes before feminine words in prepositional, adverbial and conjunctive phrases; in
herança
     1. n-f. heritage, inheritance, legacy
em
     1. prep. in; inside; within (contained by)
     2. prep. on; on top of (located just above the surface of)
     3. prep. in; at (located in a location)
     4. prep. in (part of; a member of)
     5. prep. in; into; inside (towards the inside of)
     6. prep. indicates the target of an action
     7. prep. in (pertaining to the particular thing)
     8. prep. in (immediately after a period of time)
     9. prep. in; during (within a period of time)
     10. prep. at; in (in a state of)
     11. prep. in (indicates means, medium, format, genre or instrumentality)
     12. prep. in (indicates a language, script, tone etc. of writing, speaking etc.)
     13. prep. in (wearing)
     14. prep. (slang) (indicates that the object deserves a given punishment)
favor
     1. n-m. favor (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)
     2. n-m. favor; goodwill (benevolent regard)
     3. adv. (before a verb in the infinitive) please (seen on warnings and the like)
de
     1. prep. of (in relation to)
     2. prep.          of (forms compounds; often untranslated)
     3. prep.          of; about (on the subject of)
     4. prep.          of; -'s (belonging to)
     5. prep.          -'s (made by)
     6. prep.          of (being a part of)
     7. prep.          of (introduces the month a given day is part of)
     8. prep.          of (introduces the object of an agent noun)
     9. prep.          of (introduces the name of a place following its hypernym)
     10. prep. of; -en (made or consisting of)
     11. prep.          -long (having the duration of)
     12. prep.          of (indicates the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun)
     13. prep.          of (characterised by; having the given quality)
     14. prep. of (introduces the noun that applies a given adjective or past participle)
     15. prep. from (born in or coming out of)
     16. prep. by means of; by
     17. prep. as (in the role of)
     18. prep. in (wearing)
meus
     1. det. masculine plural of meu
     2. pron. masculine plural of meu
     meu
          1. det. first-person possessive pronoun
          2. det.          pertaining or belonging to me; my
          3. det.          that serves or interests me; my
          4. det.          introduced by me; my
          5. det.          merited by me; my
          6. det.          related to me; my
          7. pron. form of f=minha
          8. pron. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)
          9. interj. (Portugal, Brazil, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
          10. interj. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
          11. interj. (Portugal) Dude
filhos
     1. n. children (one's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter)
     2. n. plural of filho
     filho
          1. n-m. son (male offspring)
          2. n-m. child (offspring of any sex)
          3. n-m. (informal) son (term of address for a younger male)
          4. n-m. (somewhat, poetic) son; child (any descendant)
          5. n-m. child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else)
          6. n-m. (graph theory) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node)




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