Phrase · 🚌 Getting around
O senhor pode me avisar onde eu desço?
Could you tell me where to get off, sir?
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
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- O → senhor: o senhor = you
- senhor → pode: 3sg verb
- pode → avisar: poder + infinitive
- onde → desço: where I get off
- eu → desço: 1st person
Mot à mot : “The sir can me warn where I get off?”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1o senhor = the polite "you" for a driver or an older man; the verb is 3sg. Subject pronouns & the spoken person system →
- 2pode me + infinitive: me sits before the second verb. Verb + infinitive: querer, poder, precisar, saber, dever, conseguir →
- 3avisar = to let someone know, not "to advise".
- 4onde eu desço = where I get off. descer spells the eu form with ç: desço. Core irregular verbs in the present →
Variantes
- Pode me avisar onde eu desço?
- A senhora pode me avisar onde eu desço?
- Moço, me avisa onde eu desço?