{"id":92,"date":"2007-10-01T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T14:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=92"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:11:33","slug":"porque-por-que-and-por-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/porque-por-que-and-por-que\/","title":{"rendered":"Porque, Por que and Por qu\u00ea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A common error in Portuguese is the misuse and confusion of these three similar phrases (and two more words).<\/b> Let&#8217;s clarify briefly:<\/p>\n<p><b>Por qu\u00ea<\/b> (two words, with circumflex accent on &#8216;e&#8217;) can only occur at the end of an indirect or direct interrogative phrase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interroga\u00e7\u00e3o direta: Eline n\u00e3o chegou ainda, por qu\u00ea?<\/li>\n<li>Interroga\u00e7\u00e3o indireta: Eline n\u00e3o chegou ainda, ningu\u00e9m sabe por qu\u00ea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Por que<\/b> (two words, no accent) can be used in two situations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To start an interrogative, direct or indirect:\n<ul>\n<li>Direct: Por que Gui n\u00e3o ligou ontem?<\/li>\n<li>Indirect: Ningu\u00e9m sabe por que Gui n\u00e3o ligou ontem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>When it could be substituted for: <b> pelo qual, pela qual, pelos quais, pelas quais<\/b>:\n<ul>\n<li>Desconhece-se a raz\u00e3o por que (pela qual) Gui n\u00e3o ligou.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Porqu\u00ea \/ Porqu\u00eas<\/b> (one word, with an accent circumflex on the &#8216;e&#8217;) is the right way to form the noun. It is easy to spot, since it will always be preceded by an article: <b>o, a, os, as, da, das, do, das, na, nas, no, nos,<\/b> etc., demonstrative pronoun (<b>este, estes<\/b>), or an adjective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desconhece-se o porqu\u00ea da aus\u00eancia de Marcos.<\/li>\n<li>O estudo dos porqu\u00eas \u00e9 interessante.<\/li>\n<li>Os estudantes se defrontam com muitos porqu\u00eas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Porque<\/b> (one word, no accent) for when all else fails, and the use fits none of the previous categories: O Gui n\u00e3o ligou porque estava fora da cidade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A common error in Portuguese is the misuse and confusion of these three similar phrases (and two more words). Let&#8217;s clarify briefly: Por qu\u00ea (two words, with circumflex accent on &#8216;e&#8217;) can only occur at the end of an indirect or direct interrogative phrase: Interroga\u00e7\u00e3o direta: Eline n\u00e3o chegou ainda, por qu\u00ea? Interroga\u00e7\u00e3o indireta: Eline&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/porque-por-que-and-por-que\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}