"The chicken burns in the oven."

Translation: O frango queima no forno.

[JuddCheatw]

Is "O frango se queima no forno." also correct? How about "O frango queima-se no forno."?

[Alphaf]

[06/07/15] In this case is "The chicken burns itself in the oven".

[reno300]

Seriously one of the incorrect options are "O frango ri no forno". Kinda gross.

[jorfmam1]

A frase tem sentido?

[Alphaf]

[06/07/15] Tem, you forgot the chicken in the oven and it is burning.

[mastakhan]

I'm a little confused by the subject-verb here. How would I differentiate between the chicken being burned (which is what's happening here) versus something burning something else? I feel like a se is necessary here. If I were to flip it and say "O forno queima o frango", the oven is doing the burning, right?

[MarkBennett6]

The English verb is ambiguous. With a direct object (the chicken burns the hen house) the chicken is doing something. Without a direct object - used intransitively - something is acting on the chicken, even though "chicken" is the subject. This is a type of intranstive verb called an unaccusative verb.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unaccusative_verb