Phrase · 🤝 Persuading & negotiating

Não estou pedindo nada de outro mundo.

I'm not asking for anything outrageous.

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Why every word is where it is

Nãoadverbnot, noestouverbamestar · present · 1st sing.pedindo1verbasking forpedir · gerundnadapronounnothingdeprepositionof, fromoutrodetermineranother, othermasc. · sing.mundo2nounworldmasc. · sing..

estou → pedindo: estar + gerund

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
estar pedindo: the progressive softens the request. Aspectual periphrases I: começar a, parar de, voltar a… →
2
nada de outro mundo = nothing extraordinary (no article, unlike del otro mundo). Register switching: spoken ↔ written BR →