Phrase · 📰 Journalistic style
Foram presos na operação três empresários e um servidor público.
Three businessmen and a civil servant were arrested in the operation.
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Why every word is where it is
Foram1verbwereser · past · 3rd pl.presos1verbarrestedprender · participle · masc. · pl.naprepositionin theem+a · fem. · sing. · definiteoperação2nounoperationfem. · sing.trêsdeterminerthreeempresáriosnounbusinessmenempresário · masc. · pl.econjunctionandumdetermineramasc. · sing. · indefiniteservidornouncivil servantmasc. · sing.públicoadjectivepublicmasc. · sing..
- Foram → empresários: subject–verb (postposed)
- presos → empresários: participle agreement
- servidor → público: agreement
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Postposed compound subject: Foram presos agrees with all of them; preso is the short participle of prender. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →
- 2operação = police operation; Federal Police operations get code names.