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Here is an example of “when the grammar just doesn’t literally translate.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In English, we’d say that “The United States “is” a beautiful country. That is because, even though the subject might appear to be plural, it is in fact singular. That is, the “United States” is the name of one country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the translation in Portuguese would treat the “United States” as a plural subject, therefore it would take the plural verb “sao” instead of the singular verb “e.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in English, we would say “The United States is a beautiful country.” But in Portuguese, they would say that “The United States sao uma pais bonita.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sao = are<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e = is<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny, don’t you think?\\<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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