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

Meu, você viu o trânsito hoje?

Mate, did you see the traffic today?

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Why every word is where it is

Meu1pronounmate (lit. my)masc. · sing.,vocêpronounyou2nd sing.viuverbdid you seever · past · 3rd sing.odeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definitetrânsito2nountrafficmasc. · sing.hojeadverbtoday?

Meu → você: vocative «meu»
viu → trânsito: ver o trânsito

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
São Paulo: «meu» (literally «my») as a vocative = mate.
2
«trânsito» = road traffic; «tráfico» usually means drug trafficking.