Foreign Language Portuguese - Basic flashcards
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- concordância
- The matching of grammatical categories between linked words, such as adjective and noun or subject and finite verb.
- regência
- The construction required by a governing word, including whether its dependent uses a particular preposition or grammatical relationship.
- pretérito perfeito
- A past tense commonly presenting a completed occurrence, interpreted through the discourse rather than equated mechanically with an English form.
- imperfeito
- A past tense often providing background or habitual activity, with additional modal uses that require contextual interpretation.
- mais-que-perfeito
- A tense expressing an action earlier than a past reference point, including compound forms such as tinha feito.
- conjuntivo
- A verbal mood used in particular subordinate constructions and meanings, including wishes, concessions and purposes, not merely any future event.
- futuro do conjuntivo
- A subjunctive tense appearing in relevant future-oriented subordinate constructions, distinguished from the personal infinitive through morphology and syntax.
- infinitivo pessoal
- An infinitive construction with personal inflection, whose form and function must be identified separately from future meaning alone.
- pronome clítico
- An unstressed pronoun whose placement depends on construction, variety and register, rather than a universally fixed position.
- contração
- The grammatical combination of elements such as a preposition and article, exemplified by em plus o forming no.
- tema
- The central subject of a passage, distinguished from an isolated supporting detail or the writer’s particular argumentative position.
- tese
- The principal claim supported in an argument, identified through the actual passage rather than assumed to occupy one fixed location.
- inferência
- A conclusion warranted by textual and contextual evidence, distinguished from a direct statement or an invented background explanation.
- referente
- The person, thing or proposition identified by a pronoun or referring expression in the actual surrounding discourse.
- restrição
- A limitation expressed by wording such as só or apenas, whose scope can determine what a passage actually permits or asserts.
- registo
- The selection of language appropriate to relationship, audience and purpose, with attention to regional conventions and communicative context.
- coesão
- The linguistic connection of clauses and paragraphs through reference, connectors and other devices making relationships recoverable.
- coerência
- The organization of ideas into a relevant and intelligible whole, avoiding contradictions or unexplained changes in argumentative direction.
- paráfrase
- A reformulation preserving essential meaning in different wording, adapted to purpose without inventing facts or changing conditions.
- destinatário
- The intended recipient of a message, whose knowledge and needs shape selection, explanation, register and communicative purpose.