Phrase · 🥊 Arguing & persuading
Raras são as cidades que conseguiram resolver isso sem investimento público.
Few cities have managed to solve this without public investment.
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Why every word is where it is
Raras1adjectivefewraro · fem. · pl.são1verbareser · present · 3rd pl.asdeterminertheo · fem. · pl. · definitecidadesnouncitiescidade · fem. · pl.que2pronounthatconseguiram2verbmanagedconseguir · past · 3rd pl.resolververbto solveinfinitiveissopronounthismasc. · sing.semprepositionwithoutinvestimentonouninvestmentmasc. · sing.públicoadjectivepublicmasc. · sing..
- Raras → cidades: agreement
- são → cidades: subject–verb
- que → cidades: relative
- que → conseguiram: subject–verb
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Fronted predicate: Raras são as cidades = "few cities"; adjective and verb agree with as cidades. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →
- 2The relative que is the subject of conseguiram, plural like as cidades. Relative pronouns: quem, onde, o que, preposition + que →