{"id":164,"date":"2008-03-03T21:16:54","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T01:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-03-03T21:16:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T01:16:54","slug":"deixa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/deixa\/","title":{"rendered":"Deixa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Deixar <\/i>[day-shar] is a useful verb in Portuguese because there quite a few expressions that use it. Literally, it means several things:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to leave&#8221;: <i>Deixei meu cachorro com minha irm\u00e3<\/i><i>.<\/i><br \/>I left my dog with my sister.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to stop&#8221;: <i>Ela deixou de fumar.<\/i><br \/>She stopped smoking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to allow&#8221;: <i>Nos deixamos nosso filho sair com os amigos.<\/i><br \/>We allow our son to go out with his friends.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a few dozen expressions that use <i>deixar<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/pten\/deixar\">which you can find listed here<\/a>. Here are some more popular expressions used with <i>deixar<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> 1. <i><b>Deixa<\/b> <b>para l\u00e1<\/b><\/i>: Leave it alone, or forget about it.<br \/><i>Seu pai realmente n\u00e3o gosta da nossa casa? <\/i>Your dad really doesn&#8217;t like our house?<br \/><i>N\u00e3o sei. Deixa para l<\/i><i>\u00e1. <\/i>I don&#8217;t know. Just forget about it.<\/p>\n<p>2. <b><i>Deixa<\/i><\/b>: Stop it, or knock it off.<br \/><i>Pai! Pai! Posso ir? Posso? Posso?<\/i> Dad! Dad! Can I go? Can I? Can I?<br \/><i>Deixa<\/i>! Knock it off!<\/p>\n<p><i>Voc\u00ea acha que sou gorda?<\/i> Do you think I&#8217;m fat? <br \/><i>N<\/i><i>\u00e3<\/i><i>o! Deixa<\/i>. No! Stop it.<\/p>\n<p>3. <b><i>Pode deixar<\/i><\/b>: Leave it to me, or no problem, or I&#8217;ll take care of it.<br \/><i>Pode buscar minha amiga no aeroporto?<\/i> Can you pick up my friend at the airport?<br \/><i>Posso. Pode deixar.<\/i> Yes I can. It&#8217;s no problem.<\/p>\n<p><i>Pode deixar um recado para ele?<\/i> Will you leave him a message?<br \/><i>Sim, pode deixar.<\/i> Yeah, l&#8217;ll take care of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deixar [day-shar] is a useful verb in Portuguese because there quite a few expressions that use it. Literally, it means several things: &#8220;to leave&#8221;: Deixei meu cachorro com minha irm\u00e3.I left my dog with my sister. &#8220;to stop&#8221;: Ela deixou de fumar.She stopped smoking. &#8220;to allow&#8221;: Nos deixamos nosso filho sair com os amigos.We allow&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/deixa\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2059],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag-deixar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}