Phrase · 📖 Telling a story
Por sorte, tinha um posto de gasolina ali perto.
Luckily, there was a petrol station nearby.
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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place
Por1prépositionbysortenomluckfém. · sing.,tinha2verbethere waster · imparfait · 3e pers. sing.umdéterminantamasc. · sing. · indéfiniposto3nomstationmasc. · sing.deprépositionofgasolinanompetrolfém. · sing.aliadverbetherepertoadverbenear.
- Por → sorte: preposition
- tinha → posto: object
- ali → perto: modifier
Mot à mot : “By luck, (it) had a post of petrol there near.”
Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi
Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.
- 1Por sorte = luckily: por for cause or chance. Por vs para: the full system →
- 2tinha = there was (spoken); writing uses havia. It stays singular, even for plural things. Existential tem (speech) vs há (writing) →
- 3posto de gasolina = petrol station, often just posto.
Variantes
- Por sorte, havia um posto de gasolina ali perto.
- Ainda bem que tinha um posto ali perto.
- Felizmente, tinha um posto pertinho.