"Oi, tudo bem?"
Translation:Hi, how are you?
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I'm going to try extrapolating from Spanish. I just looked it up in a Portuguese-Spanish dictionary to be sure. And you are correct. Bom, bon, bueno = good, and bem, bien, bien = well. And there is some serious overlap of meaning in all four languages.
From what I can gather, it's closest link in English is 'hi, alright'? In England people use 'alright?' as an informal 'how are you'. 'Alright?' > 'Yeah, you?' would be how two friends greeted each other in a pub, they almost never say anything but yes, it's a formality. Hope this helps :)
I speak to Brazilian natives, and they try to translate this literally, as does duo lingo, and 'is everything fine?' is very unnatural, it slightly implies something is wrong, when tudo bem doesn't mean that at all.
947
HI, all is well? means the same as Hi, is everything fine. Both expressions are used in the same manner. Both are acceptable. Why would one be marked as wrong?
2793
Because it hadn't been entered by an editor. So you say "my answer should be accepted". That's how I have to pay for the course because I'm not doing translation right now. But the idea is to crowd-source better translations in return for the crowd learning languages.