Phrase · 📋 Summarising & reporting
A empresa teria demitido cerca de mil funcionários.
The company has reportedly laid off about a thousand employees.
B2reporting an unconfirmed claimformalAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definiteempresanouncompanyfem. · sing.teria1verbwould haveter · conditional · 3rd sing.demitidoverbfired, dismisseddemitir · participle · masc. · sing.cercaadverbabout (cerca de)deprepositionof, frommildeterminerthousandfuncionários2nounemployeesfuncionário · masc. · pl..
- empresa → teria: subject
- teria → demitido: allegation
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1teria demitido = reportedly laid off; demitir = to fire, lay off. Compound future & conditional: speculation and allegation →
- 2No personal a before people as objects: demitir funcionários. Verbs with prepositions (regência I) →