{"id":2479,"date":"2011-07-18T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2014-07-24T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T18:00:57","slug":"dar-azar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/dar-azar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dar Azar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like in other languages, superstition often works its way into Portuguese, and here&#8217;s a useful expression to know about jinxing and bad luck. <em>Dar azar<\/em> means to jinx, or to bring bad luck. Let&#8217;s see how it&#8217;s used.<\/p>\n<p><em>N\u00e3o quero dar azar, mas acho que vai chover.<\/em> I don&#8217;t want to jinx it, but I think it&#8217;s going to rain.<\/p>\n<p><em>D\u00e1 azar passar debaixo de escada<\/em>. It&#8217;s bad luck to walk under a ladder.<\/p>\n<p><em>Todo mundo cantou vit\u00f3ria antes da hora, e deu azar para o time<\/em>. Everyone said they would win, but it brought the team bad luck.<\/p>\n<p><em>Voc\u00ea acha que gato preto d\u00e1 azar?<\/em> Do you think black cats bring bad luck?<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, we have <em>dar sorte<\/em>, which means to bring good luck.<\/p>\n<p><em>D\u00e1 sorte achar trevo de quatro folhas<\/em>. It&#8217;s good luck to find a four-leaf clover.<\/p>\n<p><em>O jogador falou que a filha dele deu sorte para o time<\/em>. The player said that his daughter brought good luck to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of more examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/07\/azar3-350x237.gif\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Like in other languages, superstition often works its way into Portuguese, and here&#8217;s a useful expression to know about jinxing and bad luck. Dar azar means to jinx, or to bring bad luck. Let&#8217;s see how it&#8217;s used. N\u00e3o quero dar azar, mas acho que vai chover. I don&#8217;t want to jinx it, but I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/dar-azar\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2479","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479","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=2479"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}