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Phrase · 🪶 Hedging & softening

Não necessariamente: depende do contexto.

Not necessarily: it depends on the context.

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Why every word is where it is

Não1adverbnotnecessariamente1adverbnecessarily:depende2verbit dependsdepender · present · 3rd sing.do2prepositionon thede+o · masc. · sing. · definitecontextonouncontextmasc. · sing..
  • Não → necessariamente: hedged no
  • depende → do: depender de

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Não necessariamente softens a "no" by questioning the generalisation.
  2. 2
    depender de + o = depende do.