Phrase · 🎶 Cultural references & allusions

Em se plantando, tudo dá.

Plant anything and it will grow.

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Why every word is where it is

Em2prepositioninse2pronoun(one)plantando2verbplantingplantar · gerund,tudopronouneverythingmasc. · sing.dá1verbgrows (lit. gives)dar · present · 3rd sing..

Em → plantando: em + gerund = if, once
tudo → dá: tudo → dá

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
Popular paraphrase of Pero Vaz de Caminha's 1500 letter on the land's fertility; often ironic today.
2
«em» + gerund = if, once (literary). Literary syntax: conjunctionless conditionals, em + gerund, nominal infinitive →