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Sentence

Aquele homem fez um crime terrĂ­vel.

Translation

That man did a horrible crime.



Analysis


aquele
     1. det. that (far from the speaker and listener)
     2. pron. form of f=aquela tlb, definite demonstrative pronoun
     3. pron. that over there, yon (far from the speaker and the listener)
homem
     1. n-m. male (human of masculine gender)
     2. n-m. (specifically) man (adult male human)
     3. n-m. a person; a human being
     4. n-m. (with definite article o) mankind (the human race in its entirety)
     5. n-m. (vocative) used to address a male, implying impatience or disappointment
     6. n-m. (colloquial informal with possessive pronoun) male lover
     7. n-m. (in compounds, fiction) a being who is half man and half creature, or a man with some characteristics of a creature
     8. adj. manly (displaying stereotypical characteristics of a male)
fez
     1. v. verb form of fazer
     2. n-f. (rare) a piece of faeces
     fazer
          1. v. to make
          2. v.          to create; to produce
          3. v.          to do; to execute; to perform
          4. v.          (auxiliary) to cause to
          5. v.          to arrange; to clean up; to tidy
          6. v.          to cook; to prepare (e.g. food)
          7. v. to play; to pretend to be
          8. v. to turn; to reach an age; to have a birthday
          9. v. (indtr, por, ditr=1) to sell for a given price (usually to make cheaper in a bargain)
          10. v. to attend a course (academic or not)
          11. v. to pass (said of time)
          12. v. to be; to occur (said of a weather phenomenon)
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)
crime
     1. n-m. crime
terrĂ­vel
     1. adj. terrible




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