{"id":6091,"date":"2015-06-06T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=6091"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T18:59:25","slug":"when-and-how-to-use-the-crase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/when-and-how-to-use-the-crase\/","title":{"rendered":"When and How to Use the Crase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The elusive crase! We all see it from time to time&#8230;but do we know exactly when and how to use it, or the rules attached to it? It&#8217;s an interesting part of Portuguese grammar and here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<p>When you use the feminine article &#8220;a&#8221; or the pronoun &#8220;a&#8221; with the preposition &#8220;a&#8221;, you need to use a crase. For example:<\/p>\n<p><em>Eu vou dan\u00e7ar hoje \u00e0 noite.<\/em> (I&#8217;m going to dance tonight)<\/p>\n<p>Without the crase, you would say hoje a a noite, which does not make sense in Portuguese. So, we use the <em>acento grave<\/em> (\u00e0) to rectify it.<\/p>\n<p>The crase fixes awkward points in grammar when there are two identical vowels. The basic rule is that any time this happens, you use a crase.<\/p>\n<p>With time, using the crase will come naturally and it is important to study its use in Portuguese. For more information, watch YouTube videos. Here is a good one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portugu\u00eas - Aula 09 - Crase\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QEFSiy7ECvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elusive crase! We all see it from time to time&#8230;but do we know exactly when and how to use it, or the rules attached to it? It&#8217;s an interesting part of Portuguese grammar and here&#8217;s the scoop: When you use the feminine article &#8220;a&#8221; or the pronoun &#8220;a&#8221; with the preposition &#8220;a&#8221;, you need&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/when-and-how-to-use-the-crase\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6,1851,13],"tags":[379345,379352],"class_list":["post-6091","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","category-learning","category-vocabulary","tag-crase","tag-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091","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\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6093,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}