{"id":2295,"date":"2011-05-24T01:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T01:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2011-05-25T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T01:27:59","slug":"collective-nouns-in-portuguese-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/collective-nouns-in-portuguese-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Nouns in Portuguese: Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While these nouns aren&#8217;t as vital to daily conversation as some other nouns you&#8217;ll learn here, they&#8217;ll help you sound like a much more experienced speaker. Today, we&#8217;re going to learn about animal collectives, or <em>coletivos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>alcateia <\/strong>= pack (of wolves, hyenas, wild dogs)<\/p>\n<p><strong>c\u00e1fila <\/strong>= caravan of camels<\/p>\n<p><strong>cardume<\/strong> = school of fish<\/p>\n<p><strong>enxame<\/strong> = swarm (of insects, like bees)<\/p>\n<p><strong>manada<\/strong> = herd of animals (including but not limited to elephants, cattle, donkeys, and horses)<\/p>\n<p><strong>matilha<\/strong> = pack of dogs<\/p>\n<p><strong>ninhada = <\/strong>litter (of baby dogs or cats); brood<\/p>\n<p><strong>rebanho<\/strong> = flock of sheep or goats<\/p>\n<p><strong>revoada, bando, nuvem <\/strong>= flock of birds<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>And my favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>panapan\u00e1 <\/strong>= rabble\/swarm of butterflies<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any other animal collectives in Portuguese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While these nouns aren&#8217;t as vital to daily conversation as some other nouns you&#8217;ll learn here, they&#8217;ll help you sound like a much more experienced speaker. Today, we&#8217;re going to learn about animal collectives, or coletivos. alcateia = pack (of wolves, hyenas, wild dogs) c\u00e1fila = caravan of camels cardume = school of fish enxame&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/collective-nouns-in-portuguese-animals\/\">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],"tags":[20,35702,110],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-animal","tag-collective","tag-nouns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}