"Nós também somos vítimas."

Translation: We are also victims.

[bonatovada]

Or, "We too are victims"

[saschambaer]

Is vítima declined for gender? I.e. is this group here female-only or mixed?

[Andrericardoo]

It is just "vitima", no gender for this word, there isn't " vitimo"

[RandyCzere]

It is a noun, so the answer is it is only uma vítima. Ele é uma vítima.

[JaredMello]

I wrote "We are victims also". Why is that wrong?

[RandyCzere]

We are victims also should be accepted.

[LinguDemo]

Victims of what? This is getting rather morbid.

[dammcc]

Eles são vítimas de um ataque cachorrinhos fofas.

[scraff]

In English we can say "we also are victims" or "we are also victims". Is this true of portuguese also? Can we say "Nós somos também vitimas"?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, this is also possible in Portuguese, but less common.

[PolyglotAlki]

Pressing this question a little further (also came up elsewhere in the thread)...Placement of the word "also" matters in English. To say, "We also are victims" clearly implies that someone else is a victim, and so are we. To say, "We are also victims" can be understood to mean that we are victims but we are something else as well (for example, perhaps I am the perpetrator of a crime, but I consider myself to also be a victim of a bad upbringing). How would a Portuguese speaker make this distinction?

[Paulenrique]

I don't think it matters much in Portuguese. Maybe your latter example could be expressed like "Nós somos vítimas também"? I think in Portuguese it is more a question of context!

[PolyglotAlki]

Thanks. Lack of context is a common complaint about these lessons from various Duolingo students, so I'll take a moment to praise the new Duolingo Stories (under the "Labs" dropdown). Good practice and lots of fun, too!

[Paulenrique]

Yeah, that's true. But the same happens with every language =) Hope you enjoy this new DL feature =)