A brief grammar of the Portuguese language with exercises and vocabularies

John Casper Branner

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x/. tiC*^\/U«L* dobro, duplo, 54 PORTUGUESE GRAMMAR triple, triplice, triplicado, triple triplo, tres dobrado, tres dobro, quadruplo, quadruple decuplo, tenfold centuplo, a hundred fold uma duzia, a dozen vintena, a score centenares, hundreds milhares, thousands multiplo, many times 63. NUMERAL SUBSTANTIVES hundred, mil, thousand, milheiro,Cento, a a fractions and the proportional numbersthousand, the as substantives.are treated 64. IDIOMS illustrations of inThe following are idioms common the numerals.use in connection with what time is it?Que horas sao, e um quarto, it is quarter past three.Sao tres E uma hora, it is one o'clock. Faltam vinte para tres (colloq.), it lacks twenty minutes of three. theA quantos estamos hoje do mez? what day of it?month is : IDIOMS 55 dia quinze or hoje e quinze, this is the fifteenth.Hoje e Quantas leguas sao d'aqui a cidade? howmany leagues is it from here to the city? Sao duas, it is two. Que idade tern o senhor? how old are (literally,you? what age has the gentleman?) Tenho vinte e tantos annos, I am twenty odd years old. Oito dias, a week (literally, eight days). Quinze dias, a fortnight (literally, fifteen days). Ha vinte annos, twenty years ago, also these twenty years. Ha cousa de vinte annos, some (about) twenty years ago. Ha duas horas, two hours ago, and these two hours. D'aqui a quinze dias, a fortnight hence.

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• Portuguese language
• Grammar

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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http://www.archive.org/details/briefgrammarofpoOObranrichA BRIEF GRAMMAR
OF THE
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
WITH
EXERCISES AND VOCABULARIES
BY
JOHN C. BRANNER, Pft.D., LL.D.
Vice-President and Professor Geologyof
Leland Stanford Jr. University
Sometime Geologist of the Commissao Geologica do Brazil
and ofthe Servico Geologico do Brazil
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1910Copyright, 1910,
BY
COMPANYHENRY HOLT ANDTO
RICHARD CUTTS SHANNON