{"id":1501,"date":"2010-09-10T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2010-09-10T03:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T03:46:57","slug":"besta-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/besta-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Besta in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Besta<\/strong> is one of those words in Portuguese that has so many meanings that it&#8217;s worth taking a closer look at.<\/p>\n<p>1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Animal<\/span>, particularly a four-legged animal used for cargo, like a donkey<\/p>\n<p>Examples: <em>besta de carga<\/em> (beast of burden)<\/p>\n<p><em>Ele comprou a besta para transportar seus produtos.<\/em> He bought the animal to transport his products<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Beast<\/span>, as in a scary animal<\/p>\n<p>Example: <em>No pesadelo, apareceu uma besta horrorosa.<\/em> In the nightmare, a horrible beast appeared.<\/p>\n<p>3. A <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_1RK9uYJeGPI\/S_-qhN-z79I\/AAAAAAAAPqM\/2c_L6cI6Gg8\/s320\/bsta.jpg\">crossbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Example: <em>Ele tem muitas armas, inclusive uma besta.<\/em> He has a lot of weapons, even a crossbow.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 A dumb, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">unintelligent person<\/span> (slang)<\/p>\n<p>Examples: <em>Essa mulher tem nada na cabe\u00e7a, \u00e9 totalmente besta.<\/em> That woman is brainless; she&#8217;s totally dumb.<\/p>\n<p><em>besta quadrada<\/em> &#8211; <strong><\/strong>a very dumb person<\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Pretentious<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Example: Que menino besta! Quem ele pensa que \u00e9? What an arrogant kid! Who does he think he is?<\/p>\n<p>5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Something stupid<\/span> or obnoxious (slang)<\/p>\n<p>Examples: <em>Quem inventou essa express\u00e3o besta?<\/em> Who invented that dumb expression?<\/p>\n<p><em>besteira<\/em> &#8211; something silly or stupid<\/p>\n<p>6. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Insignificant<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Example: <em>Uma noite besta acabou sendo a mais importante da minha vida.<\/em> An unimportant night wound up being the most important of my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besta is one of those words in Portuguese that has so many meanings that it&#8217;s worth taking a closer look at. 1. Animal, particularly a four-legged animal used for cargo, like a donkey Examples: besta de carga (beast of burden) Ele comprou a besta para transportar seus produtos. He bought the animal to transport his&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/besta-in-portuguese\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851,13],"tags":[11222,11221,6049,3007,2410],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","category-vocabulary","tag-adjecive","tag-besta","tag-meaning","tag-noun","tag-portuguese"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","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=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}