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"But they have no possibilities to win."
Translation:Mas eles não têm possibilidades de ganhar.
February 5, 2013
19 Comments
That is not common in Portuguese (perhaps it doesn't even exist. As a native, I can't remember anything like that).
You end up negating the verb, not the noun.
have no possibilites = não têm possibilidades
You could try "nenhuma possibilidade" (no possibilities).
Nenhuma = nem+uma = not a single one/not even one/none
But even doing so, you would still use the negation of the verb: "eles não têm nenhuma possibilitade de vencer"
Maybe a numeric workaround? Eles têm zero possibilidade de ganhar.