フレーズ · 🎬 Storytelling with markers

Eu não sabia se ria ou se chorava.

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

C1organizing discourseくだけた音声・近日公開

それぞれの単語がその位置にある理由

Eu代名詞I1人称単数 · 主語não副詞notsabia1動詞knewsaber · 線過去 · 1人称単数se2接続詞whetherria1動詞to laughrir · 線過去 · 1人称単数ou接続詞orse2接続詞whetherchorava1動詞to crychorar · 線過去 · 1人称単数.

sabia → se: whether-clause
Eu → sabia: subject–verb
ria → chorava: alternatives

この形になる理由

注の番号は上の番号に対応しています。

1
Portuguese repeats the imperfect (se ria ou se chorava) where English uses infinitives.
2
Both se are the conjunction "whether", not pronouns. The many 'se's →