"I am not a boy."

Translation: Eu não sou um menino.

[JCMcGee]

So, it's wrong to say "Eu sou nao um menino".....that makes grammatical sense in English?....The right answer seems to say "I not am a boy"

[Paulenrique]

Yeah, it is wrong. In Portuguese we use "not+to be", so eu não sou um menino / não estou bem

[JCMcGee]

Cheers....a rule I'll just have to remember.
This site is brilliant.

[Paulenrique]

;)

[AvAcadoFriend]

Same

[Mike441330]

Exactly what i thought. I got it wrong too

[AvAcadoFriend]

Yea, i also think this is weird, but i guess its like this....

[aspenfyre]

Word order is different in dofferent languages.

[dejongbrent]

I laughed at the option: "Eu quiça sou um menino"... I've talked to a few Brazilians, and many do not remember every hearing the word "quiça". A better option would be "tal vez" (or "talvez", as I'm not sure how it's written).

[Paulenrique]

Talvez, linked...yup, quiça is just used in a few regions or by people who have a deep knowledge in Portuguese. there are also some songs using this word by great/intellectuakl writers. http://cmais.com.br/aloescola/linguaportuguesa/significacaodaspalavras/significadodepalavraspoucousadas1-quica.htm ------ http://www.dicionarioinformal.com.br/qui%C3%A7%C3%A1/

[dejongbrent]

Thanks, do you know what areas "quiça" is used in?

[Paulenrique]

"Quiçá" is hardly ever used. Not in colloquial, rare in writing.

Maybe in some musics, texts, poems, news (ex: "Não teria, quiçá, muitos préstimos, mas queria colaborar..." [João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Diário do farol.])

Spanish: quizá, from Latin "qui sapit", quem sabe, talvez (ex.: Ele é quiçá o maior poeta vivo).

There's a jargon teenagers use -- "se pá" meaning "if it's possible / maybe / if evertything works out right". (ex: Se pá eu vou ao show -- Maybe I'll go the show /// Se pá ela goste de mim - maybe she likes me)

It's a common slang. (se pá a gente vai lá no Zé/se pá eu colo aí na escola/se pá eu acho aquele filme pra você/Aquele cara ali tá meio estranho, se pá tá passando mal/Ae, me liga por volta da meia noite, se pá a gente cola lá.”…”-- way teenagers speak, veeery poor btw)

[dejongbrent]

Haaa obrigado :) Eu acho as gírias até mais interessante que a fala formal... "Ae" por "ai" é uma gíria que sim tenho visto. "Colar" não tenho visto, é gíria também?

[Paulenrique]

cola = passa lá / chega lá (pass by (there)/ stop by (there)

[xdgqFn3V]

What is the difference between estou and sou? I got it wrong a few times.

Eu não sou um menino < > Eu não estou um menino?

[Paulenrique]

Use "estar" for temporary situations.

[Sher849182]

What do you mean temporary?

[Paulenrique]

For things that may change over time:

• Meu livro está aqui (My book is here. You can move it though.)

[-Kd79]

How to write nao with this thing over a?

[LiveeLiv]

Is it proper to also say 'Não sou um menino'?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, it's also right.

[Pessoa2015]

Muito obrigado

[lee851340]

So what im seeing is that the speech bubble comes from a female yet when i chose "uma" over "um" i was wrong??

[aspenfyre]

Because boy is a masculine word, so "um menino" is used. Obrigado/a is the only time when gender of word correlates to gender of speaker.

[Karen399099]

I was trying to correct the spellomg not submit, oops.

[SujoyBaner5]

Why this is wrong

[ViraatAwas]

Chup tu paglu

[claudia545045]

Why is my answer uncorect