Phrase · 🧉 Regional expressions: South, Southeast & Centre-West
Cuidado pra não morder o caroço do pequi!
Careful not to bite into the pequi stone!
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Why every word is where it is
Cuidadonouncarefulmasc. · sing.praprepositionfor, to (spoken)paranãoadverbnot, nomorderverbbiteinfinitiveodeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definitecaroço2nounstone, pitmasc. · sing.doprepositionof thede + o · masc. · sing. · definitepequi1nounpequi (cerrado fruit)masc. · sing.!
- Cuidado → morder: cuidado pra não + infinitive
- caroço → pequi: caroço do pequi
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Goiás: «pequi», a cerrado fruit cooked with rice; its stone hides thin spines, so you scrape it with your teeth.
- 2«caroço» = the stone of a fruit (Spanish «hueso»).