{"id":7407,"date":"2017-01-31T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2017-01-31T18:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T18:29:23","slug":"the-ne-and-ta-in-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-ne-and-ta-in-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"The “n\u00e9” and “t\u00e1” in Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ol\u00e1, pessoal! Hi, people!<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week we learned about the idiom <\/span>pois \u00e9 <\/b>in Portuguese.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Here is the link, in case you missed it: <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/the-pois-e-in-portuguese\/<\/span><\/a> ). Now we are going to see other colloquial expressions that we Brazilians use all the time, mostly in spoken language or online. I\u2019m talking about <\/span>n\u00e9<\/b> and <\/span>t\u00e1<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

N\u00c9<\/b><\/p>\n

The <\/span>n\u00e9<\/b> carries the idea of, \u201cright?\u201d, \u201cisn\u2019t it?\u201d. It works like a tag question. It is a contraction of<\/span> n\u00e3o + \u00e9<\/b> (not + is), therefore, <\/span>isn\u2019t it?<\/b>. We add <\/span>n\u00e9<\/b> at the \u00a0end of a sentence when we expect confirmation or validation of something said.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: Voc\u00eas v\u00e3o me levar com voc\u00eas na viagem, <\/span>n\u00e3o \u00e9<\/span><\/i>? becomes: Voc\u00eas v\u00e3o me levar com voc\u00eas na viagem, <\/span>n\u00e9<\/span><\/i>? (You guys are going to take me to the trip, aren\u2019t you?)<\/span><\/p>\n