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

Barbaridade, que chuvarada!

Good grief, what a downpour!

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Why every word is where it is

Barbaridade1interjectiongood grief (lit. barbarity),quedeterminerwhat (a)chuvarada2noundownpourfem. · sing.!
  • que → chuvarada: que + noun exclamation
  • Barbaridade → chuvarada: interjection framing the comment

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Gaúcho «Barbaridade!» = good grief!, for anything surprising, good or bad.
  2. 2
    «-ada» marks a large quantity: chuva → chuvarada. Advanced word formation, neologisms & slang morphology →