Wendung · 🙇 Apologies & excuses
Desculpa, acabei esquecendo de te avisar.
Sorry, I ended up forgetting to tell you.
B1apologizing for forgettinginformellAudio · bald verfügbar
Warum jedes Wort dort steht, wo es steht
DesculpaVerbsorrydesculpar · Imperativ · 3. Pers. Sg.,acabei1VerbI ended upacabar · Vergangenheit · 1. Pers. Sg.esquecendo2Verbforgettingesquecer · Gerundiumde3Präpositiontote3Objektpronomenyou2. Pers. Sg. · direktes Objektavisar3VerbtellInfinitiv.
- acabei → esquecendo: periphrasis
- esquecendo → de: preposition
- avisar → te: object
Wörtlich: “Sorry, (I) finished forgetting of you to-tell.”
Warum sie so gebaut ist
Die Hinweise passen zu den Nummern oben.
- 1acabar + gerund = to end up doing something you didn’t plan. A very common excuse. Aspectual periphrases I: começar a, parar de, voltar a… →
- 2esquecer = to forget, usually with no pronoun in speech. Spanish se me olvidó is esqueci.
- 3esquecer de + infinitive = to forget to do something. Te avisar: pronoun before the infinitive. Object pronouns as spoken →
Varianten
- Desculpa, esqueci de te avisar.
- Acabei esquecendo, foi mal!
- Nossa, esqueci completamente!