Phrase · 🧾 Formal complaints
O pedido chegou incompleto: faltam duas peças.
The order arrived incomplete: two items are missing.
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Why every word is where it is
Odeterminerthemasc. · sing. · definitepedidonounordermasc. · sing.chegouverbarrivedchegar · past · 3rd sing.incompletoadjectiveincompletemasc. · sing.:faltam1verbare missingfaltar · present · 3rd pl.duasdeterminertwodoispeças1nounparts, piecespeça · fem. · pl..
- faltam → peças: plural subject after verb
- pedido → incompleto: masculine
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1faltar agrees with what is missing, placed after it: faltam duas peças. Topicalisation & left dislocation →