Phrase · 🧩 Idiomatic speech

Você está procurando pelo em ovo.

You're nitpicking.

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Why every word is where it is

Vocêpronounyou3rd sing. · subjectestá1verbareestar · present · 3rd sing.procurando1verblooking forprocurar · gerundpelo2nounhairmasc. · sing.em2prepositioninovo2nouneggmasc. · sing..

está → procurando: estar + gerund
procurando → ovo: idiom

Word for word: “You're looking for hair in an egg.”

Why it's built this way

The notes match the numbers above.

1
estar + gerund: the Brazilian progressive, never estar a + infinitive.
2
procurar pelo em ovo = "nitpick"; here pelo is "hair", not por + o.