"She finds her grandmother's letters."
Translation:Ela encontra cartas de sua avó.
January 9, 2013
9 Comments
Because in Portuguese the object comes first, in this case: cartas. Ex: A casa da mulher ( the house of the woman). You can also say : ela encontrou as cartas da avó dela though.
November 3, 2013
Ahhh....object always comes first ne? Okay ;) Thanks for the help random stranger :B
November 4, 2013
Because the English sentence is "her grandmother's letters", rather than "[some] letters of her grandmother", shouldn't it be "as cartas" rather than just "cartas"?
January 11, 2014
I think so too. It seems the Portuguese and English sentences don't have quite the same meaning.
February 3, 2014
"Dela" has to immediately follow the thing that is "hers," so it has to be "avó dela" rather than "cartas dela"
June 18, 2014
