"A população deixa o país."

Translation: The population leaves the country.

[samosborn88]

you wouldnt say deixa to mean leave like exit would you? deixar = leave some object behind or put on top of somewhere...
for leaves the country wouldnt you say sair?

[Paulenrique]

Yeah, they "leave the country behind", so we use "deixar" indicating that they wont come back soon. (Eu saio de casa para trabalhar - I'll be back soon)

[kcmurphy]

Great question and answer, samosborn88 and Paulenrique! Very interesting.

[Danmoller]

I wish German people were like Brazilian. While there are lots of Brazilians here making it easier to learn, I don't find any German posting thing in German lessons.

[stefpearce]

Point taken. I'll make time to go through the German pages to give back some of what I'm getting out of the Portuguese discussion. Thanks for waking up my conscience ;-)

[Gilberto106073]

The problem is, there is no course "Portuguese for German speakers". I am German, but i had to use "Portuguese for English speakers".

[rvegagold]

In English, instead of "Population" I would use "People". To me, people sounds better in English.

[rosiewlf]

So how would you say, "The population leaves the countryside" if this is not correct?

[danieltheodoro84]

Countryside = "interior" or "campo"

[jbeest]

English has an alternate word "populace" that I think fits even better here, because it refers to the actual people as well as the number of people, but the answer "The populace is leaving the country" was rejected.

[uchual]

Populace and population are synonymes, but the former has a connotation of referring to the proletariat, the plebeians, the "Joe and Jane Doe", while population is more generally used to indicate the inhabitants of a land.