"Eu sou um usuário."

Translation: I am a user.

[niamhie3]

Admitting it is the first step..

[phenger2]

You beat me to it. :)

[JesDeLove]

Er.. does: 'I am a user' mean the same thing in Portuguese as it does in English?

[Paulenrique]

Yes... it means someone who continuously uses something (usuário de banco, de drogas, do Facebook, etc).

[shankroll]

In English, with no context, I think most people would assume you're saying, "I am a drug addict."

[Danmoller]

In portuguese too. Nowadays the computer user is also an option . You'd be in doubt between drug and computer users.

[Danmoller]

But maybe you could say computers are drugs?

[DREDWARD]

Maybe they are :/

[ejlens]

well...try inhaling or injecting a computer and tell us about your experience. :-)

[rachael.cr3]

Or someone who takes advantage of people. "Don't date Joe, he doesn't care about you. He's a user."

[Danmoller]

In Portuguese that meaning could only take "ele é (um) manipulador" or "ele usa alguém".

[ErikRed1]

I dunno, when I hear that someone is a user, I think of a person who uses others.

I would use addict, junkie, druggie, or crack-head for someone who uses drugs.

(USA eastcoast)

[galletadecolores]

Why not de Facebook, instead of do Facebook?

[Paulenrique]

Because it's a specific brand.

[galletadecolores]

So for specifics, you use do, while in general, de is widely used?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, take it as a rule of thumb, knowing there will always be an exception.

[surfx2015]

Why not: "i am aN user" ?

[Danmoller]

User tem som de "yu", considerado consoante em inglês.

Daí entra no mesmo caso de "yard", "year", "university", "unit", etc...

Acontece a mesma coisa quando o som é de "w", como "woman", "wall", "weird", "one", etc...

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"User" has a "yu" sound, it's considered a consonant sound in English.

It falls in the same case as "year", "yard", "university", "unit", etc...

The same thing happens when it's a "w" sound, like "woman", "wall", "weird", "one", etc...

[surfx2015]

Grato Danmoller, mesmo caso para "an hour", é a pronuncia que indica o uso ou não do "n" em a/an.

[agent_Lesli]

eu sou uma usuaria , also possible ?

[Paulenrique]

Yes!

[Laura736405]

How do you say "and a loser" & "so I don't need no accuser?

[Vernica618397]

Tenia entendio que en ingles se debe usar "a" antes una palabra que empieza con consonante y se usa "an" antes de las palabras que empiezan con vocales. I translated "I am AN User" y me lo consideraron erroneo, por que?

[Moofy_Moof]

It is based on whether the sound of the first syllable is a consonant or vowel. User may start with a "u" but the sound is a consonant, making "I am a user" correct.

An example of the opposite is "an hour" as the sound that starts the word is a vowel (the "h" is silent).