{"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 ‘Eh?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Americans are certainly familiar with the fact<\/del> stereotype that Canadians end their sentences with ‘Eh?’ A sort of rhetorical interrogative, this type of linguistic habit or custom is by no means limited to Canada.<\/p>\n

Of course, this saying doesn’t end 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


\nA couple of expressions of this type are considered perhaps slightly uneducated or informal; even so, they are overwhelmingly common. Both ‘n\u00e3o \u00e9?<\/strong> and ‘n\u00e9?’<\/strong> fall into this category. Another frequently encountered word of this variety must be closely related to the Canadian ‘eh;’ this word is Hein?<\/strong>, pronounced essentially as a nasalized ‘eh.’<\/p>\n

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 ‘pois \u00e9.’<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Americans are certainly familiar with the fact stereotype that Canadians end their sentences with ‘Eh?’ A sort of rhetorical interrogative, this type of linguistic habit or custom is by no means limited to Canada. Of course, this saying doesn’t end every sentence, but is used as a casual cue for the listeners approval. Brazilians…<\/p>\n

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