Wendung · 🥊 Arguing & persuading
Quanto mais cedo agirmos, menores serão os prejuízos.
The sooner we act, the smaller the losses will be.
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Quanto1Adverbthemais1AdverbmorecedoAdverbearlyagirmos2Verbwe actagir · Subjuntivo · Futur · 1. Pers. Pl.,menores3Adjektivsmallermenor · mask. · Pl.serão3Verbwill beser · Futur · 3. Pers. Pl.osBegleitertheo · mask. · Pl. · bestimmtprejuízos4Nomenlossesprejuízo · mask. · Pl..
- Quanto → menores: correlative
- serão → prejuízos: subject–verb
- menores → prejuízos: agreement
Warum sie so gebaut ist
Die Hinweise passen zu den Nummern oben.
- 1Quanto mais …, menores …: a correlative with no articles (never o quanto). Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →
- 2agirmos: future subjunctive for a future action. Future subjunctive: uses →
- 3Fronted predicate: menores serão os prejuízos, with the verb before its subject. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →
- 4False friend: prejuízo = "loss, damage", not "prejudice" (preconceito).
Varianten
- Quanto antes agirmos, menores serão os prejuízos.