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Phrase · 🎬 Storytelling with markers

Tô te falando, foi a coisa mais estranha que eu já vi.

I'm telling you, it was the weirdest thing I've ever seen.

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Why every word is where it is

Tô1verbI'mestar · present · 1st sing.te1object pronounyou2nd sing. · indirect objectfalando1verbtellingfalar · gerund,foiverbit wasser · past · 3rd sing.adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitecoisanounthingfem. · sing.maisadverbmostestranha2adjectivestrangeestranho · fem. · sing.quepronounthateupronounI1st sing. · subjectjá3adverbevervi3verbsawver · past · 1st sing..
  • Tô → falando: estar + gerund
  • coisa → estranha: agreement
  • eu → vi: subject–verb

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Tô te falando = "I'm telling you": insists the story is true; tô = estou. Discourse markers in conversation →
  2. 2
    estranho = "strange"; careful, esquisito also means "weird", not «exquisito».
  3. 3
    já vi = "have ever seen": Portuguese uses the simple past with já.