Phrase · 🎚️ Nuance & positioning
Sejamos justos: a gestão anterior também tentou resolver isso.
Let's be fair: the previous administration also tried to solve this.
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Why every word is where it is
Sejamos1verblet's beser · subjunctive · present · 1st pl.justos1adjectivefairjusto · masc. · pl.:adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitegestão2nounadministrationfem. · sing.anterioradjectivepreviousfem. · sing.tambémadverbalsotentouverbtriedtentar · past · 3rd sing.resolververbto solveinfinitiveissopronounthis.
- Sejamos → justos: agreement
- gestão → tentou: subject–verb
- tentou → resolver: tentar + infinitive
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Sejamos justos = "let's be fair": the nós imperative is the present subjunctive, as in Spanish seamos. Present subjunctive: forms →
- 2gestão = "administration, term of office", common for city halls and governments.