"Ele não aceita que está velho."

Translation: He does not accept that he is old.

[Danikalifornia]

How do we know that he doesn't accept that YOU are old? Would we need to write "que você está velho."?

[Paulenrique]

Yes, it makes sense. We use pronoun to avoid confusion!! (as in this case). When you do not use, it means it is the same.

[jackit]

Shouldn't it be é instead of está because we're describing a person?

[Paulenrique]

Not exactly. The context makes it clear that the person became old and now, at this point of his/her life, the person is old.

[jackit]

Thanks for the clarification. I really struggle with it.

[Paulenrique]

Yeah, it hard to come across... =/

[androghost]

How about "He doesn't accept what is old" in a context as "he doesn't accept anything that is old"

[Paulenrique]

The translation for that is "ele não aceita o que é/está velho"

[MoniqueDons]

In your translation of velho , you give the possebility to choose for "old man"

[andrewjfisher]

I don't understand how the "que" here transformed from "what" to "that he".

I translated this as "He does not accept what is old"...

So confused.

[Paulenrique]

• que = that

• o que = what

• He does not accept what is old = ele não aceita o que é velho.