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De onde você é?

Translation

Where are you from?



Analysis


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)
onde
     1. adv. (interrogative) where (at what place)
     2. adv. (interrogative) where (to what place); whither
     3. conj. where (at or in which place or situation)
     4. pron. where (the place in which)
você
     1. pron. (formal, semi-formal, or offensive in Portugal, informal or formal in Brazil) second-person singular personal pronoun; you
     2. pron. indefinite pronoun; you; one
é
     1. v. verb form of ser
     2. interj. that’s right; yes; yeah; indicates agreement
     3. interj. erm; um; used in hesitant speech
     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)




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