{"id":45,"date":"2007-08-08T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=45"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T18:30:40","slug":"vir-and-ir-coming-and-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/vir-and-ir-coming-and-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Vir and Ir, Coming and Going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is very important in Portuguese not to confuse the verbs <strong>Vir<\/strong> <em>to come<\/em> and <strong>Ir<\/strong> <em>to go<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is incorrect to say <strong>&#8220;<del>Vou<\/del> aqui de novo a semana que vem&#8221;<\/strong>, you would need to be sure to say <strong>&#8220;Veio&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the same token, be careful not to <em>translate in your head<\/em> phrases such as &#8220;I&#8217;m coming to see you in B\u00fazios&#8221; as the literal translation is incorrect. Instead, you would say <strong>&#8220;Vou visitar voc\u00ea em B\u00fazios&#8221;<\/strong>, which is literally translated as &#8220;I&#8217;m going to visit you in B\u00fazios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is a minor point, but an error that will certainly elicit a correction from any Brazilian within earshot.<\/p>\n<p>Remember&#8230; <strong>Vou l\u00e1&#8230; Veio aqui<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very important in Portuguese not to confuse the verbs Vir to come and Ir to go. It is incorrect to say &#8220;Vou aqui de novo a semana que vem&#8221;, you would need to be sure to say &#8220;Veio&#8230;&#8221; By the same token, be careful not to translate in your head phrases such as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/vir-and-ir-coming-and-going\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}