"Parece um ovo."

Translation: It looks like an egg.

[amhedh]

Should "looks like an egg be accepted" ?

[erudis]

It should. These things are better reported than commented, since I don't know how frequently moderators look at these discussions.

[beadyeyedbee]

Yes, because "seems like an egg" was accepted.

[natigh]

No. You are missing the personal pronoun (it/he/she).

[Zoloft]

can someone give me an example sentence. each using "parece"
or "aparece"? i want to find the difference. obrigado.

[VandeirGontijo]

Parece = seem, like. Aparece = show, become visible

[erudis]

"Ele parece com o pai."
"Meu cachorro aparece para comer sempre que é chamado."

[dungna93]

"He seems with the father." Does that mean "It is likely that he is with his father"?

[erudis]

No, an accurate translation would be "he resembles his father" (could be looks or personality). In this case it's actually more common to see "ele se parece com o pai", I guess because the sentence can be considered reflexive. There's a lot of flexibility with the verb parecer, so unfortunately your best bet is to get familiarized with it through exposition, because there are no hard and fast rules to follow.

[dungna93]

Muito obrigado, erudis!.

[RadeRadovanovic]

Why "like an egg" is wrong?

[DREDWARD]

You forgot parece= seems......

[DavidRosen2]

Shouldnt "seems like/appears to be an egg" also make sense, this going off of parece's similarity to aparece

[inshadeone]

"(It) Appears to be an egg" should be accepted too from the point of what the phrase means in English. Maybe it's less permissive in Pt though...

[JohnZorr]

I wrote be like an egg...and it was wrong

[DREDWARD]

I believe that would be-como um ovo. Totally different sentence/meaning. :)