{"id":722,"date":"2009-12-24T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=694"},"modified":"2009-12-24T09:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:10:54","slug":"using-ao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/using-ao\/","title":{"rendered":"Using &#8220;ao&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to examine how to use &#8220;ao&#8221; as a preposition. Here, it is used as &#8220;upon&#8221; or &#8220;when.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ao descobrir o rato no quarto, ela deu um grito.<\/em> When she discovered the mouse in her room, she screamed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ao encontrar o garoto perdido, ficamos aliviados.<\/em> Upon finding the lost boy, we felt relieved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fiquei feliz ao embarcar no avi\u00e3o.<\/em> I felt happy when I got on the plane.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Expressions with ao<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ao vivo = live<\/p>\n<p>ao dente = al dente<\/p>\n<p>ao fim de tudo = at the end<\/p>\n<p>ao fim e ao cabo = in the end\/in conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of any other expressions using ao?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to examine how to use &#8220;ao&#8221; as a preposition. Here, it is used as &#8220;upon&#8221; or &#8220;when.&#8221; Ao descobrir o rato no quarto, ela deu um grito. When she discovered the mouse in her room, she screamed. Ao encontrar o garoto perdido, ficamos aliviados. Upon finding the lost boy, we felt relieved&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/using-ao\/\">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],"tags":[1901,2116,379352,2410,2419],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-ao","tag-expression","tag-grammar","tag-portuguese","tag-preposition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}