"No entanto, a garota não tem tempo."

Translation: However, the girl has no time.

[Hector290697]

Is "garota" like "chica" or "nena" for you guys?

[MarcoAurelioSS]

it is girl. menina = garota. Usually "garota" is used more for a teenager than for a kid.

[kcmurphy]

What is the difference between "garota" and "menina?" Region of usage? Age of the person? This is the first time I've seen "garota," so my experience is very limited!

[Paulenrique]

Where i live it isnt related to the age. "garota" is used since a little girl up to a young person. But, frankly, menina is used the same way, but not that often! "Garota" is more informal

[daniel87359]

How about rapaz?

[whitebox]

What's the equivalent of 'garota' for a boy?

[Paulenrique]

Garoto/garota, menino/menina, criança (child) for both boy and girl.

[erudis]

It's mainly based on regional differences. In some places they mean the same thing, in others they don't, and as far as I know, garoto/a is not frequently used in Portugal. Usually, when there is a difference (besides regional preference), it's age related, and people say menina more often to kids and teenagers, and garota to teenagers and young adults (the ages may overlap a bit).

[SergeRenato]

What does no entanto literally mean? In the ____ . Why does it mean however?

[gernt]

I used the dictionary translation - notwithstanding. Silly me. Of course that got kicked out.

[liofla]

As far as I can tell "no entanto" is a fixed form, it's useless to try and split it in two different words, see for instance https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/entanto :

> Only used in no entanto

[Muddogging1]

Like "in so much as". Latin languages still retain a lot of the medieval syntax, which makes it poetic.

[Willia536866]

In Mosambik they say rapaz and rapariga

[jc-maluca]

So "garoto" and "menino" are synonymous but "rapaz" implies a boy slightly older?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, but we can't put it as a rule, imo.

[Florian823137]

So there are three words to say "girl" : menina - garota - rapariga

[MarcoAurelioSS]

Kinda... rapariga is not used at all in the real life. girl is menina and garota. But garota is more for a older girl. You won't say garota for a 6 year old girl. You could... but it will sound strange to me, maybe a little too formal

[gernt]

Thanks. We need all the native speaker help we can get.

[gernt]

And that's just in Duo. English has a lot too. But I wonder about rapariga. The Urban Dictionary says it's perjorative in Brazil but not in Portugal.

[StefanoRub1]

I wrote "However, the girl does not have the time." but it seems wrong ....
It is difficult to understand what you must write each time... a small different word from the reported in the database and you must repeat all the level, not the single exercise...
A very good program is Duolingo, but not always it permits free spoked expression.
It will be better, certainly

[Christian_Marcos]

* However, the girl does not have the time.*
Is it correct???

[Paulenrique]

However, the girl does not have time.

[kpelle27]

"nonetheless" should work, no?

[daniel87359]

Any difference between "entanto" and "no entanto"?

[KyanGoncalves]

Garota/menina/rapriga - what are the differences?