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Phrase · 🕊️ Managing conflict

Vamos com calma: ninguém aqui quer brigar.

Let's take it easy: nobody here wants a fight.

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Why every word is where it is

Vamos1verblet's goir · present · 1st pl.com1prepositionwithcalma1nouncalmfem. · sing.:ninguém2pronounnobodyaquiadverbherequer2verbwantsquerer · present · 3rd sing.brigar3verbto fightinfinitive.
  • Vamos → calma: fixed phrase
  • ninguém → quer: subject–verb
  • quer → brigar: querer + infinitive

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    Vamos com calma = "let's take it easy": a fixed way to slow down a heated exchange.
  2. 2
    ninguém before the verb needs no não; the verb is singular. Negation: não, nada, ninguém, nunca, nem →
  3. 3
    brigar = "to fight, to argue" (in words or physically).