"Ela usa xampu de morango."

Translation: She uses strawberry shampoo.

[aimee]

This sentence is so much better after I stopped reading it as "xampu de frango" :)

[Agent.Logic_]

LMAO! The same happened to me. :D I always get confused between frango and morango.

[Sollihein]

I thought I was alone in this. Because frango does not sound at all like its sister language counterparts (poulet, pollo) I have a hard time remembering. Add to that strawberry in Italian is fragola!

[alphalyrae]

I only remember it because there's a chicken restaurant chain here called Frango's... That's a good point though, does anyone know why the Portuguese word is so different to other Romance languages?

[Scutigera]

Possibly related to an Arabic word, farouj (فروج) which means chicken.

[Youssef927086]

You are right, that's "rooster" in Arabic. I never made the connection but perhaps that's why I have no problem remembering that word.

[rafaleluia]

In portuguese, "shampoo" can be translated as xampu or shampoo

[alfredo601]

the shampoo packaging in Brazil has written shampoo, so I can tell you that here in São Paulo many people do not know the right name is xampu.

[NunoRafael13]

And champô (pt-PT)

[ruchika29]

I wrote 'she uses shampoo of strawberry' and it was wrong?!

[SelwynMont]

Given that articles are sometimes omitted in portuguese is it really an incorrect translation when saying "she uses A strawberry shampoo"?

[Paulenrique]

maybe because that's not as literal as they wanted. (ela usa um xampu de morango)

[Iamaweirdo]

My kind of lady. =)

[jyonporru]

What would the portuguese be for «she has pips (or seeds) in her hair»? I think we need to know as it would be a logical conclusion to using strawberries to wash.

[AM-Tl]

What is the difference between”She uses strawberry shampoo and she uses shampoo of strawberry?” or is there a strawberry that is a shampoo?

[PhillipBro6]

Ela usa xampu feito de morango
She uses shampoo made from strawberries.