"You are not any friend."

Translation: Você não é um amigo qualquer.

[Johnni0]

"You are not any friend." sounds like "you are no friend". While "você não é um amigo qualquer" sounds more like "you are not just any friend, (you are my bestest friend)".

[tomopeth]

that's exactly what I thought

[mgaristova]

so did I

[KTKee-EnglishEng]

I don't know if this sentence works in Portuguese but it doesn't in English.

[PaulRobert6]

This sentence is nonsense in English. It literally is ungrammatical and meaningless.

[MitchL2idi]

English meaning is ambiguous, if barely grammatically tolerable ...

[GrnpcFTMarkRMOwl]

Right. In English usage, the sentence is very negative, more like"You are no friend at all". which in Portuguese might be "Voce e um amigo algum", which if I've got it right, is like "nenhum amigo."

[anachron]

Does this express a positive or negative sentiment in Portuguese?

[paulconsul]

What is wrong with qualquer amigo?

[Paulenrique]

it also works, less used though.

[Duomail]

It's accepting “você não é um amigo“ :/ ?!

[CovJay]

the other way round, when I was asked to translate "Você não é um amigo qualquer" the answer "You are not any friend." was marked wong and it said the correct answer was "You are not just any friend."