{"id":591,"date":"2009-07-08T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=561"},"modified":"2009-07-08T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:00:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-empregada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/word-of-the-day-empregada\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: empregada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/wotd\/today\/portuguese.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese word of the day<\/a> is <strong>empregada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This word is fairly easy to pronounce: em &#8211; pray- gah-dah.<\/p>\n<p>The most common meaning of this word is <em>maid<\/em>, as in a female servant who cleans and\/or cooks for clients. The complete term is <strong>empregada dom\u00e9stica<\/strong>, to indicate that the maid works in a home. This is because empregada can also be a female employee.<\/p>\n<p>As a verb in the past participle, <em>empregada<\/em> means employ (in the sense to use) as well as in the sense to hire.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at examples of all of the meanings.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Noun 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>A nossa empregada vem todo dia para limpar a casa. <\/em>Our maid comes every day to clean the house.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Noun 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Aquela mulher \u00e9 empregada da empresa.<\/em> That woman is an employee of the company.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Verb 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>A palavra &#8220;combinar&#8221; <\/em><em>\u00e9 empregada para marcar um evento ou encontro.<\/em> The word &#8220;combinar&#8221; is used to schedule an event or a date.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Verb 2<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Ela foi empregada pela Texaco no ano 1992.<\/em> She was hired by Texaco in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check out the other Transparent <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/wotd\/\" target=\"_blank\">words of the day<\/a> in 12 other languages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Portuguese word of the day is empregada. This word is fairly easy to pronounce: em &#8211; pray- gah-dah. The most common meaning of this word is maid, as in a female servant who cleans and\/or cooks for clients. The complete term is empregada dom\u00e9stica, to indicate that the maid works in a home. This&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/word-of-the-day-empregada\/\">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":[1851,13],"tags":[2098,2282,379357,616],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","category-vocabulary","tag-empregada","tag-maid","tag-vocabulary","tag-word-of-the-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}