{"id":70,"date":"2007-08-29T20:46:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T00:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=70"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:49:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:49:45","slug":"the-brazilian-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-brazilian-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brazilian &#8216;Eh?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Americans are certainly familiar with the <del>fact<\/del> stereotype that Canadians end their sentences with &#8216;Eh?&#8217; A sort of rhetorical interrogative, this type of linguistic habit or custom is by no means limited to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this saying doesn&#8217;t end <em>every<\/em> sentence, but is used as a casual cue for the listeners approval. Brazilians have several expressions that play the same role.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nA couple of expressions of this type are considered perhaps slightly uneducated or informal; even so, they are overwhelmingly common. Both <strong>&#8216;n\u00e3o \u00e9?<\/strong> and <strong>&#8216;n\u00e9?&#8217;<\/strong> fall into this category. Another frequently encountered word of this variety must be closely related to the Canadian &#8216;eh;&#8217; this word is <strong>Hein?<\/strong>, pronounced essentially as a nasalized &#8216;eh.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Though somewhat rhetorical in nature, these phrases do typically solicit some kind of affirmative response. A good go-to phrase to respond to these is <strong>&#8216;pois \u00e9.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Americans are certainly familiar with the fact stereotype that Canadians end their sentences with &#8216;Eh?&#8217; A sort of rhetorical interrogative, this type of linguistic habit or custom is by no means limited to Canada. Of course, this saying doesn&#8217;t end every sentence, but is used as a casual cue for the listeners approval. Brazilians&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-brazilian-eh\/\">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":[1848],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-customs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}