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Eu respondi, fazendo um gesto afirmativo.

Translation

I answered, doing an affirmative gesture.



Analysis


eu
     1. pron. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
     2. pron. (Brazil, nonstandard, highly, proscribed) first-person singular prepositional pronoun; me
     3. n-m. (chiefly philosophy) ego; self (individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
     4. interj. Used to draw attention to oneself after having their name called.
respondi
     1. v. verb form of responder
     responder
          1. v. to answer; to reply (to give a written or spoken response)
          2. v. to retort frequently
          3. v. to correspond to (to be equivalent to)
          4. v. to counterattack
          5. v. to be responsible (for something)
          6. v. (legal, intransitive) to be a defendant
fazendo
     1. v. verb form of fazer
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)
gesto
     1. n-m. gesture
afirmativo
     1. adj. affirmative
     2. adj. assertive
     3. interj. (formal) yes




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