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- "Ela é uma gata!"
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When I wrote ¨she is beautiful¨ it was not accepted, even though as you say it is related to a girl who is really beautiful. I wonder if duolingo would accept ¨She is a knockout¨?
It's like you say "foxy lady" in English. Or in my native language -- Norwegian -- the word for grouse is used (yes, the bird living in the mountains, in the hen family with pheasants etc.) It's even combineable with other words, e.g. 30 years ago people would say "exhaust grouse" about a babe who was riding with MC blokes :-)
If you call a girl you don't know as a gata, probably she wouldn't like it (depending on the situation and the person, I suppose). But it's ok in conversations with friends to say a girl is a "gata" or a boy is a "gato", so talking about someone else, that's fine... but saying this directly to the person, be aware.
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You are sure. In portugueseId (BR) we say : É uma gata, when to reffer animals, without the pronoun. Idiomatic expression. : Ela é uma gata (we use to saying that a woman, a girl is a beauty, pretty.