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Sentence

Minhas tias são jovens.

Translation

My aunts are young.



Analysis


minhas
     1. det. feminine plural of meu
     2. pron. feminine plural of meu
tias
     1. n. plural of tia
     tia
          1. n-f. aunt (sister of someone's father or mother, or an uncle's wife)
          2. n-f. (slang) aunt (colloquial term of address for an older woman)
          3. n-f. (slang) colloquial term of address for any female person
          4. n-f. (Brazil, slang) a female clerk who performs a regular activity
são
     1. adj. sound, healthy (enjoying health and vigour of body, mind, or spirit)
     2. adj. sane (mentally sound; possessing a rational mind)
     3. adj. logically sound
     4. n-m. someone or something healthy
     5. adj. (before the noun) apocopic form of santo saint
     6. v. verb form of ser
     ser
          1. v. (copulative) to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality
          2. v. to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)
          3. v. (auxiliary) to be (forms the passive voice)
          4. v. (impersonal) to be (indicates a point in time)
          5. v. (indtr, em, -another locational preposition) to be in (to be located in)
          6. v. (indtr, de) to be from (to have as one’s place of origin)
          7. v. (indtr, de) to be (someone’s); to belong to
          8. v. (indtr, para, aux=personal infinitive, .transitive, .or) to be for; to be to (to have as its purpose)
          9. v. (indtr, para, .impersonal, aux=personal infinitive) to be supposed to; should (introduces an expected or demanded action)
          10. v. to be; to cost (to be worth a given amount of money)
          11. v. to happen; to take place; to occur
          12. v. (indtr, por, a favor de, contra) to be against or in favour of
          13. v. (poetic, intransitive) to exist; to be
          14. v. (impersonal, transitive) used for emphasis
          15. n-m. being (a living creature)
jovens
     1. adj. plural of jovem
     2. n. plural of jovem
     jovem
          1. adj. young, youthful
          2. n. youngster (young person)




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