Phrase · 🧠 Complex argumentation
Longe de resolver o problema, a medida o agravou.
Far from solving the problem, the measure made it worse.
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Why every word is where it is
Longe1adverbfardeprepositionof, fromresolververbsolvinginfinitiveodeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definiteproblemanounproblemmasc. · sing.,adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitemedidanounmeasurefem. · sing.o2object pronounitele · 3rd sing. · direct objectagravouverbmade worseagravar · past · 3rd sing..
- Longe → resolver: longe de + infinitive
- o → problema: o = o problema
- medida → agravou: medida → agravou
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1«longe de» + infinitive = far from doing: an elegant way to say the opposite happened.
- 2Object pronoun «o» before the verb after the subject (Brazilian próclise in formal writing). Clitic placement by register & written object pronouns →