{"id":1252,"date":"2010-06-23T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2014-07-23T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T18:23:16","slug":"provar-vs-tentar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/provar-vs-tentar\/","title":{"rendered":"Provar Vs. Tentar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to look at two verbs that both mean to try, but in different contexts.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Provar<\/strong> =\u00a0 to try (taste) \/ to try on \/ to prove<\/p>\n<p><em>N\u00e3o quis provar o macarr<\/em><em>\u00e3<\/em><em>o, mas resolvi com\u00ea<\/em><em>-lo.<\/em> I didn&#8217;t want to try the pasta, but I decided to eat it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ela provou o vestido e gostou muito.<\/em> She tried on the dress and liked it a lot.<\/p>\n<p><em>Querem provar que s<\/em><em>\u00e3<\/em><em>o corajosos.<\/em> They want to prove that they&#8217;re brave.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Tentar<\/strong> = to try \/ to intend<\/p>\n<p><em>Ela tentou lembrar a palavra<\/em>. She tried to remember the word.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sempre tentamos ser gentis<\/em>. We always try to be polite.<\/p>\n<p><em>Eu irei tentar ir na festa<\/em>. I will try to go to the party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/try-try-again\/\">Read more here<\/a> for more verbs that mean &#8220;to try&#8221; and their uses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"250\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2010\/06\/eating.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Today we&#8217;re going to look at two verbs that both mean to try, but in different contexts. 1. Provar =\u00a0 to try (taste) \/ to try on \/ to prove N\u00e3o quis provar o macarr\u00e3o, mas resolvi com\u00ea-lo. I didn&#8217;t want to try the pasta, but I decided to eat it. Ela provou o vestido&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/provar-vs-tentar\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[379352,2410,9652,2562,2595,166],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar","tag-portuguese","tag-provar","tag-tentar","tag-try","tag-verbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}