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264 CONYERSATIONAL PORTUGUESE

Ndo ąuero este sem I don’t want this one aąuele.    without that one.

b. Este and aąuele also mean “the latter” and “the former”:

Acabam de chegar o The ambassador and his embaixador (x—sh) e    secretaryjust arrived.

(o) seu secretario.

Este e jovem e aąuele    The former is old and

e velho.    the latter is young.

Notice that the order in Portuguese is the opposite of the English order: este . . . aąuele (“the latter ... the former”),

c. There are also some neuter forms:

isto	this, this (one)
isso	that, that (one) (near
	person spoken to, or
	mentioned by him)
aąuilo	that, that (one) (farther

removed)

The neuter forms are morę generał, referring to an idea or statement, or in referring to an object or several items thinking of them in a generał way, morę as “this” than “this one” or “these”:

Isto i melhor ąue    This is better than that.

(or do ąue) aąuilo.

3. Contractions of demonstrative forms: a. with the preposition a: aąuele dąueles aąuela aąuelas aąuilo

b. with the preposition de:

deste	destes	desta	destas	disto
desse	desses	dessa	dessas	disso
daąuele	daąueles	daąuela	daąuelas	daąuilo
c. with the preposition em:
neste	nestes	nesta	nestas	nisto
nesse	nesses	nessa	nessas	nisso
naąuele	naąueles	naąuela	naąuelas	naguilo

26. INDEFINITE ADJECTIYES AND PRONOUNS

all

todos

tal (tais pl.)

outro

alguem

ninguem

ałgumacoisa .

nenhum

algum

ydrios

nada

coda

tudo

tanto

certo

mais

menos

ąualąuer

os demais

such (a) another, other somebody, someone nobody, no one something no one, nonę some

several, some nothing each, every all, everything as much

certain, a certain

morę

less

any, whatever, whoever the rest

The adjectives above generally vary in form to agree with the word modified; tal (tais), alguśm, ninguem, nada, cada, tudo, mais, and menos have only these forms.