Phrase · 🧉 Regional expressions: South, Southeast & Centre-West

Uai, cê não ia chegar mais cedo?

Hang on, weren't you going to get here earlier?

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Pourquoi chaque mot est à sa place

Uai1interjectionhey, huh,cê2pronomyou (spoken)você · 2e pers. sing.nãoadverbenot, noiaverbewere going toir · imparfait · 3e pers. sing.chegarverbearriveinfinitifmaisadverbemorecedoadverbeearly?

ia → chegar: imperfect of ir + infinitive (unfulfilled plan)
cê → ia: cê → ia

Pourquoi elle est construite ainsi

Les notes correspondent aux numéros ci-dessus.

1
Minas Gerais: «uai» marks surprise or the obvious (like «ué»).
2
«cê» is the spoken short form of «você», strongest in Minas and São Paulo.