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Phrase · 🕊️ Managing conflict

Águas passadas não movem moinho.

Let bygones be bygones.

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Why every word is where it is

Águas1nounwaterságua · fem. · pl.passadas1adjectivepastpassado · fem. · pl.nãoadverbnotmovem2verbmovemover · present · 3rd pl.moinho1nounmillmasc. · sing..
  • Águas → moinho: proverb
  • Águas → movem: subject–verb
  • passadas → Águas: agreement

Word for word: “Past waters don't turn a mill.”

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Proverb = "let bygones be bygones": used to close an old dispute.
  2. 2
    movem agrees with the plural águas.