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Phrase · 🫂 Feelings & empathy

Tô de saco cheio dessa burocracia.

I'm fed up with all this red tape.

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Why every word is where it is

Tô1verbI amestar · present · 1st sing.de1preposition(of)saco1nounbagmasc. · sing.cheio1adjectivefullmasc. · sing.dessa2prepositionof thisde+esse · fem. · sing.burocracianounred tapefem. · sing..
  • Tô → cheio: idiom
  • cheio → dessa: saco cheio de

Word for word: “I'm with a full bag of this bureaucracy.”

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    estar de saco cheio (de) = "be fed up (with)": colloquial, best kept for friends, but not a swear word.
  2. 2
    dessa = de + essa: what you are fed up with.