Wendung · 📖 Telling a story
Eu tinha acabado de sair de casa quando o telefone tocou.
I had just left home when the phone rang.
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euPronomenI1. Pers. Sg. · Subjekttinha1Verbhadter · Imperfekt · 1. Pers. Sg.acabado1Verbjust (finished)acabar · Partizip · mask. · Sg.dePräposition(of)sairVerbleaveInfinitivdePräpositionfromcasa2Nomenhomefem. · Sg.quandoKonjunktionwhenoBegleiterthemask. · Sg. · bestimmttelefoneNomenphonemask. · Sg.tocou3Verbrangtocar · Vergangenheit · 3. Pers. Sg..
- eu → tinha: subject
- tinha → acabado: periphrasis
- acabado → de: preposition
- acabado → sair: periphrasis
- telefone → tocou: subject
Wörtlich: “I had finished of to-leave from home when the phone rang.”
Warum sie so gebaut ist
Die Hinweise passen zu den Nummern oben.
- 1tinha acabado de + infinitive = had just done: acabar de in the pluperfect. Aspectual periphrases I: começar a, parar de, voltar a… →
- 2sair de casa = to leave home, with no article: de casa, em casa.
- 3tocar = to ring (a phone, a bell) or to play (music).
Varianten
- Eu tinha acabado de sair quando o telefone tocou.
- Eu mal tinha saído de casa quando o telefone tocou.
- Eu acabava de sair de casa quando o celular tocou.