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Não mexas nas minhas coisas.

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não
     1. adv. (preceding verbs or adverbs) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
     2. adv.          (preceding verbs) used in sentences containing a negative pronoun as the object; see double negative
     3. adv.          (Brazil, colloquial, following verb phrases) used to emphasise or reinforce (in the case that there is a previous unstressed adverb não, see abo
     4. adv.          (beginning questions) isn't (used to ask whether a person agrees with the proposition, rather than to ask for an unknown fact)
     5. adv. (preceding adjectives, usually hyphenated) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
     6. adv. (as a sentence-final parenthesis) isn't it? right? (tag question)
     7. interj. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
     8. interj. no (used to show agreement with a negative question)
     9. n-m. no (a negative answer)
mexas
     1. v. verb form of mexer
     mexer
          1. v. to move, to mess with, to put your hands on
          2. v. to fiddle with
          3. v. to move it; to hurry up
nas
     1. pron. form of f
minhas
     1. det. feminine plural of meu
     2. pron. feminine plural of meu
     meu
          1. det. first-person possessive pronoun
          2. det.          pertaining or belonging to me; my
          3. det.          that serves or interests me; my
          4. det.          introduced by me; my
          5. det.          merited by me; my
          6. det.          related to me; my
          7. pron. form of f=minha
          8. pron. mine (belonging to me, pertaining to me, serving me, relating to me, etc.; corresponding to any of the above definitions)
          9. interj. (Portugal, Brazil, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
          10. interj. (Brazil, slang) whoa (used to express surprise)
          11. interj. (Portugal) Dude
coisas
     1. n. plural of coisa
     2. v. verb form of coisar
     coisar
          1. v. (informal, humorous) A placeholder verb used when the speaker doesn't remember a specific verb, and whose meaning can be inferred through context.
     coisa
          1. n-f. thing (a physical object, entity or situation)
          2. n-f. thingamajig; gizmo, thingy (something whose name is unknown)
          3. v. verb form of coisar




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