Topic: Portuguese

"Você tem direitos."

Translation:You have rights.

January 22, 2013

8 Comments

https://www.duolingo.com/Michel_Wang

    As far as I know, in Spanish/Portuguese "derecho/direito" has both meaning (direction "right" and human "right") similar to English.

    May 23, 2016
    https://www.duolingo.com/reidlearnsguitar

      Is this use of "rights" correct?

      January 22, 2013
      https://www.duolingo.com/erudis
      • 2184

      Yes.

      January 22, 2013
      https://www.duolingo.com/fredodo

        It is correct, but it seems there is a confusion between the different meanings of direito. We are in the lesson on Directions, so I suppose it would be more coherent to put a sentence with the meaning "on the right".

        May 23, 2013
        https://www.duolingo.com/woolfool
        • 816

        I can only agree with you. This meaning of this word should not be used here.

        November 28, 2015
        https://www.duolingo.com/DiemDias

          Does that mean that "direitos" means rights as in "human rights"?

          March 20, 2016
          https://www.duolingo.com/ArthurSilvaBoff

            Yes, it does.

            January 12, 2019
            https://www.duolingo.com/bigglesworth

              I think duolingo does try to teach multiple meanings of a word at once. It could do so more clearly.

              March 27, 2016
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