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Phrase · 📞 Phone calls & voice messages

Tá cortando, não tô te ouvindo direito.

You’re breaking up, I can’t hear you well.

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Why every word is where it is

Tá1verbit’sestar · present · 3rd sing.cortando1verbcutting outcortar · gerund,nãoadverbnottôverbI’mestar · present · 1st sing.teobject pronounyou2nd sing. · direct objectouvindoverbhearingouvir · gerunddireito2adverbproperly.
  • Tá → cortando: periphrasis
  • tô → ouvindo: periphrasis
  • ouvindo → te: object
  • direito → ouvindo: modifier

Word for word: “(It)’s cutting, not (I)’m you hearing right.”

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Tá cortando = it’s breaking up: no subject and no se, unlike Spanish se corta. estar + gerund (progressive) →
  2. 2
    direito = properly, well, used as an adverb. Não ouvi direito = I didn’t catch that.

Variations

  • Está cortando, não estou te ouvindo direito.
  • A ligação tá ruim.
  • Tá falhando muito.