Phrase · 📍 Where things are
Cadê o meu celular? — Tá em cima da mesa.
Where’s my phone? — It’s on the table.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- Cadê → celular: where’s + thing
- meu → celular: agrees (m.)
- Tá → celular: subject understood
- em → da: em cima de
- da → mesa: de + a mesa
Mot à mot : “Where’s the my mobile phone? — Is on top of-the table.”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Cadê…? = where is…? Spoken, very common, and it needs no verb. Questions & question words (incl. cadê) →
- 2o meu celular: article + possessive is normal in Brazil. Possessives & the dele/dela fix →
- 3Things you can move take estar (tá) for where they are. ser & estar: forms and core uses →
- 4em cima de = on (top of). de + a = da. Contractions: preposition + article/pronoun →
Variantes
- Onde está o meu celular?
- Cadê a chave? — Tá na bolsa.
- Cadê meu celular?