Phrase · 🧉 Regional expressions: South, Southeast & Centre-West
Véi, essa tesourinha tá engarrafada de novo.
Man, this interchange is jammed again.
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Why every word is where it is
Véi1nounman, matevelho · masc. · sing.,essadeterminerthisesse · fem. · sing.tesourinha1nouncloverleaf interchange (lit. little scissors)fem. · sing.táverbis (spoken)estar · present · 3rd sing.engarrafada2verbjammedengarrafar · participle · fem. · sing.deprepositionof, fromnovoadjectiveagainmasc. · sing..
- tesourinha → engarrafada: tesourinha → engarrafada
- tá → engarrafada: estar + participle (state)
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Brasília: «véi» = mate; «tesourinha» = the city's small cloverleaf interchanges.
- 2«engarrafado» (literally «bottled») = jammed; «engarrafamento» = traffic jam.