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Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese (Part 2)

By Ligia Fleckenstein

Building a Sentence Now, let us take a look at the different ways of building a sentence. For instance, the question - What are you doing? In Brazil, it would be translated as O que você está fazendo? Whereas in Portugal, it would certainly be O que tu estás a fazer?. You can see that Brazilians use the pronoun você as their favorite pronoun and the same structure of the English language: the present of verb to be + main verb in the ing form.
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