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Phrase · 🎭 Indirect invitations & refusals

Vamos marcar alguma coisa!

Let's get together sometime! (often phatic)

C2phatic invitationinformalAudio · coming soon

Why every word is where it is

Vamos1verblet'sir · present · 1st pl.marcar1verbarrangeinfinitivealguma2determinersomealgum · fem. · sing.coisa2nounthingfem. · sing.!
  • Vamos → marcar: vamos + infinitive = let's
  • marcar → coisa: marcar alguma coisa (no date)

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

  1. 1
    «marcar» = to arrange, set (a date, a meeting).
  2. 2
    «alguma coisa» with no day or time: a warm formula, not yet a plan. Pragmatics of Brazilian indirectness & politeness →