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Does the verb ganhar only mean win? Or, like in Spanish, does it also mean to earn?
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Win, gain, earn, make (money). They can be synonyms depending on the context, but "ganhar", like "win", usually doesn't have the sense of being deserved, like earn does (think of "I earned a raise" vs. "I won a raise").
I entered "The man gets a belt" (accepted) which makes more sense than "The man wins a belt".
The 'nh' sound is like a soft nasalized 'n' in which the tongue doesnt quite touch the roof of the mouth and leaves the sound open, but nasalized. . . I cant think of an equivalent in English at all! Almost like 'ñ' or like 'canyon' but the sound is not closed off by the tongue, if that makes ANY sense??
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actually it would be "faixa"(tkd, jiu jitsu, karatê, judô - faixa branca, cinza, amarela...preta...)and "cordão/corda"(capoeira).
When receive means win, to be clear. He received a prize, not he received his test results.
Ganha means win when you make it happen, like win a race,and ganha mens gets when someone give you something, like me giving you a answer
Thanks. I forget and pronounce the 'a' in my head like can rather than duh! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPv2mJJwHQ
