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Ele estava dando uma de experiente.

Translation

He was pretending to be experienced.



Analysis


ele
     1. pron. third-person masculine singular nominative personal pronoun; he; it
     2. pron. third-person masculine singular prepositional pronoun; him; it
     3. pron. (Brazil) third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used in all positions; he; him; it
estava
     1. v. verb form of estar
     estar
          1. v. (indtr, em, -another locational preposition) to be (indicates location in space)
          2. v. (copulative) to be (denotes a transient quality; a quality expected to change)
          3. v. (indtr, a, aux=infinitive (Portugal) or with the gerund (Brazil)) to be (forms the progressive aspect)
          4. v. to cost (to be worth a certain amount of money), especially of something whose price changes often
          5. v. to look (to give an appearance of being)
          6. v. to stand
dando
     1. v. verb form of dar
uma
     1. num. feminine of um
     2. art. feminine singular of um
     3. pron. feminine of um
     um
          1. num. one
          2. art. (indefinite) a, an
          3. art.          (in the plural) some; a few (a small number of)
          4. art.          (with unnouns) a bit of
          5. art.          (usually in the feminine, pronounced slowly, emphatically and with a high intonation) (indicates that what follows is exceptional); quite a; quite the
          6. n-m. the figure or digit "1": one
          7. pron. form of
          8. pron. a person; one; someone
          9. pron. element(s) of a previously mentioned class: one; some (in plural)
de
     1. prep. of (in relation to)
     2. prep.          of (forms compounds; often untranslated)
     3. prep.          of; about (on the subject of)
     4. prep.          of; -'s (belonging to)
     5. prep.          -'s (made by)
     6. prep.          of (being a part of)
     7. prep.          of (introduces the month a given day is part of)
     8. prep.          of (introduces the object of an agent noun)
     9. prep.          of (introduces the name of a place following its hypernym)
     10. prep. of; -en (made or consisting of)
     11. prep.          -long (having the duration of)
     12. prep.          of (indicates the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun)
     13. prep.          of (characterised by; having the given quality)
     14. prep. of (introduces the noun that applies a given adjective or past participle)
     15. prep. from (born in or coming out of)
     16. prep. by means of; by
     17. prep. as (in the role of)
     18. prep. in (wearing)
experiente
     1. adj. experienced (having experience)




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