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Hoje recebi duas respostas: um sim e um não.

Translation

Today I received two answers: a yes and a no.



Analysis


hoje
     1. adv. today (in the current day)
     2. adv. nowadays (in the current era)
recebi
     1. v. verb form of receber
     receber
          1. v. to get; to receive
          2. v. to collect or receive payment
          3. v. to receive (to act as a host for guests)
          4. v. to be hit by something
          5. v. (telecommunications) to receive (to detect a signal from a transmitter)
duas
     1. num. feminine of dois
respostas
     1. n. plural of resposta
     resposta
          1. n-f. answer, response
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)
sim
     1. interj. yes (affirmative answer)
     2. adv. indeed; do (used for emphasis in affirmative expressions)
     3. n-m. yes; yea (an affirmative answer)
e
     1. conj. and (connects two clauses indicating that the events occurred together, one after the other or without any special implication)
     2. conj. and (connects the last and penultimate elements in a list)
     3. conj. (emphatic) and (connects every element of a list)
     4. conj. (logic) and (indicates a conjunction operation)
     5. conj. (in the format “X e X”) and (indicates a great number of something)
     6. n-m. (logic) and, conjunction
     7. n-m. abbreviation of este (east)
     8. v. (Internet slang) alt form-lite, é, , is
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)
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)




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