{"id":2374,"date":"2011-06-16T02:24:45","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2011-06-16T02:24:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T02:24:45","slug":"ainda-bem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/ainda-bem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ainda Bem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve learned about the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/slang-phrases\/\">ainda bem<\/a>&#8221; before, as it&#8217;s used as an interjection. But today we&#8217;re going to learn how to use it within a sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The meaning is the same: this expression means &#8220;good thing&#8221; or &#8220;thank goodness&#8221; or &#8220;how fortunate that&#8230;&#8221; Let&#8217;s see it used in a sentence:<\/p>\n<p><em>Ainda bem que ela n\u00e3o veio hoje. Tenho que limpar ainda!<\/em> Good thing she didn&#8217;t come today. I still need to clean up!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ainda bem que consegui terminar o projeto ontem!<\/em> Good thing I managed to finish the project yesterday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Ainda bem que est\u00e1 chegando o fim de semana!<\/em> Thank goodness the weekend is nearly here!<\/p>\n<p>Another great way to remember this expression is with a <a href=\"http:\/\/letras.terra.com.br\/vanessa-da-mata\/102362\/\">beautiful song<\/a> from Vanessa da Mata entitled &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; Ainda Bem!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KBCQ4EA5xnw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KBCQ4EA5xnw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve learned about the phrase &#8220;ainda bem&#8221; before, as it&#8217;s used as an interjection. But today we&#8217;re going to learn how to use it within a sentence. The meaning is the same: this expression means &#8220;good thing&#8221; or &#8220;thank goodness&#8221; or &#8220;how fortunate that&#8230;&#8221; Let&#8217;s see it used in a sentence: Ainda bem que ela&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/ainda-bem\/\">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":[35710,2116],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-ainda-bem","tag-expression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","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=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}