Phrase · 🕊️ Managing conflict
Permita-me discordar: os números não sustentam essa tese.
Allow me to disagree: the figures don't support that claim.
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Why every word is where it is
Permita1verballowpermitir · imperative · 3rd sing.-me1object pronounmeme · 1st sing. · indirect objectdiscordarverbto disagreeinfinitive:osdeterminertheo · masc. · pl. · definitenúmerosnounfiguresnúmero · masc. · pl.nãoadverbdon'tsustentam2verbsupportsustentar · present · 3rd pl.essadeterminerthatesse · fem. · sing.tese3nounclaimfem. · sing..
- Permita → -me: enclisis
- Permita → discordar: permitir + infinitive
- números → sustentam: subject–verb
- essa → tese: agreement
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Formal Permita-me: você imperative with the pronoun attached at the start of the sentence. Clitic placement by register & written object pronouns →
- 2sustentar = "support, back up" (a claim with evidence).
- 3a tese = "the claim, the line being argued", not only an academic thesis.