Phrase · 🎶 Cultural references & allusions
Cadê minha chave? Deve ter sido o Saci.
Where's my key? The Saci must have taken it.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- Deve → sido: dever ter + participle = must have
- sido → Saci: ser + subject after it: o Saci
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1The Saci-pererê, a one-legged trickster of Brazilian folklore, gets the blame for anything that goes missing.
- 2«deve ter sido» = must have been (a guess about the past).