"A cidade precisa dessas áreas de Lazer."

Translation: The city needs those leisure areas.

[Armwood]

why "lazer" is with capital letter?

[Paulenrique]

oh a bug..

[rolosrevenge]

Or maybe they are talking about Lazer Alexandro de Almeida de Silva. Every city needs his areas...

[Zoltan_Nemeth]

and after 4 years, it's still there :P

[Lingledingle]

I would never use "leisure areas" in my English but can guess what they probably are. Would "recreational areas" come closer to common American English?

[colus001]

"Essa áreas" could be translated to "Those areas".

[Paulenrique]

Yep, but literally it would be these since dessas (de + essas) is these. Those would be daquelas (de + aquelas). But both would work well.

[doronnick]

so i don't get it. it still corrects my to "those"

[AlexisLinguist]

Dessas is a contraction. You would not translate the "of" (Need of). Same in something like French, j'ai besoin de.... You would not say "I have need of...", but rather simply, I need. The translation of dessas/daquelas is those.

[LolaValentine]

These would estes/estas

[eidylon]

why is it "de" as "for" instead of por or para? shouldn't de be of?

[Paulenrique]

Sometimes, "locução adjetiva" is used instead of an adjective. It means you have "noun + preposition + noun". This "preposition + noun" becomes an adjective that describes the noun. The most common preposition in this case is "de".

• orange juice = suco de morango
• leisure areas = áreas de lazer