Phrase · 🖋️ Rhetoric & literary style
Que me perdoem os puristas, mas a língua muda.
The purists will have to forgive me, but language changes.
C2provocative concessionAudio · coming soon
Why every word is where it is
Queconjunctionmaymeobject pronounmeeu · 1st sing. · direct objectperdoem1verbforgiveperdoar · subjunctive · present · 3rd pl.osdeterminertheo · masc. · pl. · definitepuristasnounpuristspurista · pl.,masconjunctionbutadeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitelínguanounlanguagefem. · sing.mudaverbchangesmudar · present · 3rd sing..
- Que → perdoem: jussive que + subjunctive
- puristas → perdoem: subject after the verb
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Jussive «que» + subjunctive with the subject after it: an ironic apology before a provocation. Prestige vs stigmatised variants & style-shifting →