ITALIAN Man Learning Brazilian Slang Words

[@metatronacademy]

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[@Octavivs]

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[@insomnia9436]

we also use the word cara as in cara mia/cara mio italian like you mentioned, its like minha cara (for women) and meu caro (for men), for its kinda formal speech, used by mostly older people. Its also used when you addressing a letter, like "cara amiga," (dear friend,). In its slang context it can also be used from a woman to another or in a group of women, like the word "guys" in english, for example "cara não acho que isso é certo" (guys i dont think this is right" is terms of talking to a group of people without considering their gender. Oh and the está/tá situation is the same as in english, when they abreviate "is" or "are" in phrases like it's or you're.

[@BOLSONARONACADEIA]

Sua explicação foi ótima🙂👍🏾

[@darknexusknight]

4:00 Está, Estou, Estamos, Estão: these are usually abbreviated in spoken language (Tá, Tô, Tamo, Tão, respectively).

[@silviastanziola659]

Yes. That guy was saying tá instead of está; he should probably have reflected that on the subtitles that he used.

[@Anna_Batista-w6v]

Cê tá bom, cara?

[@gabrielhoelzle8476]

So, funny thing is in brazilian portuguese 'cara' and 'caro' can also mean something dear or expensive. But it's also our word for 'face 'and 'dude', depends on the context

[@sica7093]

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[@module79l28]

Não é só no português brasileiro, é em toda a Lusofonia. 😉

[@ratqt.]

yeah, there are a lot of ways to use the same word. "minha cara"/"meu caro" is the same as "my dear", but "minha cara" could also be "my face". when it means "my dear" it will generally be separated from the rest of the sentence by commas. examples: "Você está bem, minha cara?"(Are you okay, my dear?), "Minha cara, como você está?"(My dear, how are you?). otherwise, it'll mean "my face" (unless im forgetting something, which is probable) "aquela coisa está cara" is "that thing is expensive". so when it's an adjective, it means expensive and at last, "aquele cara" is "that dude". in this, "cara" is exclusively used as a noun to refer to a man

[@jboss1073]

Cara/caro is from Latin; cara as in "face" or "dude" or "head" is from Celtic *kaira, metathesis of *karia; this can be found in the name of the sorbus aucuparia tree, the sacred druid tree, whose fruit are little red balls, and which is called *kairatenos in Celtic, giving cerddin in Welsh, cerden in Cornish, kerzin in Breton. Cara as in "face" or "dude" or "head" is also cognate with the curse word c*ralho and with the word for bald, "careca", literally *kaira + *-ika, "ballish" or "ball-shaped". The PIE root is *ker ("head") (Pokorny 574-77).

[@paulthomas8262]

That is really interesting because dear meaning expensive I would not have associated with Latin languages. It comes from Old English Deore and earlier diore/dyre. Daor in Irish also means expensive. Saor means cheap because replacing some D words in Irish with S can mean the opposite.

[@juleo1000]

2:10 We also use "cara/caro" as "dear" in Brazilian Portuguese but it is formal language and mainly used written. You will rarely hear anyone using it in spoken language unless it's in formal situations.

[@GM_Lemmy]

The most common slang in Brazilian Portuguese is probably "legal". Its literal meaning is, of course, 'legal"... But it's VERY commonly used to mean "cool", "nice", "good" or... Well... Anything vaguely positive, TBH. And you were right. He did indeed shorten "está" to "tá"... That's extremely common in casual conversation. Even in formal ones, actually... The verb "esperar" ("to wait") is also often shorted to "pera". And yes, "cara" means "face", but it's also the feminine version of the word "caro", which can mean expensive or... "Dear". Just like in Italian. It's usually somewhat formal and polite, compared to ""querido" (or "querida", in the feminine), which tends to be more intimate and sentimental.

[@sica7093]

I CRACKED SO HARD with the londoneer kid accent. Reminds of my bus rides in London.

[@Adriano-Marchesi]

Yes,we frequently shorten some verbs like "ESTOU" to "TÔ". CARO/CARA - We also use them meaning "dear",but it's mainly used in formal speech(politicians or in court) but these words also mean "cheap" both for masculine and feminine things (yes,we do have genders for objects). LENHO - We have "LENHA" which the wood specifically to start a campfire. "IRADO" literally means "Infuriated/enraged/Furious,etc".

[@DenisRizzoli]

*"expensive"

[@LucasFigueiredoBR]

"Lenho" também existe em português, mas, assim como "lenha", não tem o mesmo significado de madeira em geral como do italiano "legno".

[@Adriano-Marchesi]

@@DenisRizzoli oh,thanks... I got confused. it really means expensive

[@odotawaissaku3755]

Irado must be cognate with “irate” then

[@LucasFigueiredoBR]

@@odotawaissaku3755 Both come from the latin "iratus".

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[@kamiwriterleonardo6345]

Remember that each region of Brazil has its own slangs. Northeast, for example, has the "oxe/oxente" (pronounced "eaushe"/"eaushentte"), which can stand for "what?" most of the time, but can be used for other meanings like "weird" and "strange" Edit: Also, "Pau" is another slang word. Pau can mean several things, like "wood", "stick", "branch", "plank", and more vulgarly, "p*nis". The official term for "wood" is "madeira". Therefore, be careful when using the word "pau".

[@tonguetrail]

In brazil we also use cara and caro in the same way italian use like "Minha cara" or "Meu caro" but u will identify if is cara like "bro" just in context

[@luizbomfim2840]

Metatron, the word "CARA" has 4 meanings in Brazil. - The first one is used completely incorrectly for the word "face", It is wrong because in Portuguese we also have the word "face". - The second form is "cara", in the sense of "dude" (slang) - The third meaning is the same as what you said, "my dear". In the feminine: "minha cara amiga" in the masculine "meu caro amigo". - And the fourth use is in the sense of something expensive. Wood in Brazil has the same shape, in several forms. Could it be: "Lenha" as in English "firewood". It could be "madeira""; It could be "pau" but in the sense of "stick". Gato and Gata are primarily referring to felines. But it is used as slang the way he explained it in the video. The word "irado" means "terribly angry", but as slang it is used as "cool".

[@jboss1073]

My refutation of your ignorance has been deleted.

[@luizbomfim2840]

@jboss1073 👍🏻

[@module79l28]

4:00 - He said "tá", which is a short form for "está". Very common among all native Portuguese speakers. The same way as he said "tou" instead of "estou".

[@Mackeriv]

"I'll give him a like" **takes the like away** ...based!?

[@emmanuel1337]

He was distracted and assumed the like wasn't there already, which is very understandable (I've done it before), but it was really funny to me for some reason hahahaha.

[@gustavoolivieri6568]

He's talking about carioca accent, that is, from Rio. Maneiro sounds like it doesn't have the i in ei : manêro! (é in Italian, closed e) Actually it applies all similar cases: cadeira (chair) is cadêra; feira (fair, market), fêra...

[@darknexusknight]

"Pau" can mean wood but it's usually used to mean stick or dick. "Madeira" is the default word for wood. We have the word "lenha" (it has to be a cognate) which typically means firewood.

[@sledgehog1]

The closest word in Portuguese to the Italian word 'legno' is 'lenho', which means a piece of wood or a branch. However, this word(lenho) is rarely used...

[@darknexusknight]

@sledgehog1 Sabia n mano. Nunca vi essa sendo usada, nem em textos mais acadêmicos.

[@sledgehog1]

@@darknexusknight É, a língua Portuguesa é riquíssima :)

[@Leonardo7772012]

E " lenho" que também tem o significado de " madeiro" ou estaca ou pau

[@jboss1073]

@@darknexusknight In Portuguese you can switch many words from feminine to masculine to go from collective to individual. Hence "lenha" is "firewood" but "lenho" is "a piece of firewood".

[@yNathanzK]

Caro and cara has also this same meaning of dear as well but u can notice during the conversation

[@thiagocoutinho7571]

2:24 also has that meaning, but it's the kind of phrase I would expect to see in a period film, they would say: "meu caro" or "minha cara"

[@Goku0467]

Mas é mais para escrever carta.

[@thiagocoutinho7571]

@Goku0467 pois é, carta é coisa de época, mas mesmo e-mail, quando eu era estagiário no setor público, eu escrevia Prezado, caro parece estranho, não usoal.

[@ruiwippel4099]

Caro and cara are used exactly as in Italian: meu caro amigo, minha cara amiga (mio caro amico, mia cara amica), but it's not a slang in this case.

[@GabrielVitor-kq6uj]

"Tá" is an abreviation of "Está" (is). The phrase "Como você está?" (how are you?), is shortened to "Como você tá?", and can even be shortened further to "como cê tá?", with the "cê" being an abreviation of "você" (you). When we speak, we tend to abreviate a lot of words to make this phrase quicker and smoother, but when the conversation is formal, we will speak in the proper manner... to the confusion of any non native speakers.. In my state/province Minas Gerais, we're know for abreviating things a little too much XD. Also, "tá" is the abreviation of "está" which is basicaly (is) but in the second or third person, so when speaking of he/she or them. When speaking of yourself, it is "estou", and the abreviation is "tô" or "tou". In the plural, for the second or third person, it is "estão" (are), it abreviated would be "tão", and for the first person of the plural, as in referring to us, it becomes "estamos", with the abreviation being "tamo". This abreviations will make you sound very native in day to day conversations, but in more formal conversations you should still use the proper spelling. Hope I helped.

[@LucasFigueiredoBR]

Segunda pessoa singular do presente indicativo do verbo "estar" é "tu estás". "Você" é conjugado na terceira pessoa, "está".

[@silviastanziola659]

Wood in portuguese is usually referred to by the word madeira; the word pau is less formal and usually used for wooden sticks. We have the word lenha as well, but we use that for logs or for the wood ovens (forno à lenha).

[@PC_Simo]

4:08 For me, as a Russian-learner, the ”Etta”-pronunciation fits very well, to my mental matrix. In Russian, the word: «Этот»(m)/«Эта»(f)/«Это»(n)/«Эти»(pl.) means: ”It” or: ”They” («Эти»); but it’s often used, like: ”It is” or: ”It’s”, in English (because Russian doesn’t really use the copula (the verb: ”to be”), in present tense, very much; it’s implied, in the context); and I’ve heard some Russian natives (like Boris, from the channel: ”Life of Boris”) often use *_JUST_* the word: ”Is”, to say: ”It’s”. I don’t know, if it’s done, for comedic/stylistic effect, or if it’s hypercorrection, or whatever; but it works, for me. 😅

[@ederfabio100]

is extreme common in brasil we cut off the "es" in the verb "estar" in many conjugations. For example: "estava/tava", "estive/tive". In portuguese we have the word "lenha" that is a wood used specifically to burn

[@danfg7215]

I think the guy on the video mixed things up a bit, "cara" meaning "face" is not colloquial, it's formal, it's literally what a face is called. "cara" meaning "dude" is colloquial.

[@itsjonesh]

Some pointers I would like to give is that yes: we also use a similar word for wood - lenha - and that is used especifically for firewood used in fireplaces. We also use "Cara" in the context you described in italian - "Cara/Caro" as an adjective of esteem, in the same context, too. However, it's formal portuguese and used mostly on very formal occasions and documents. Cara and Caro can also be used to describe something that is very expensive, so it's a word with multiple applications in portuguese and relies heavily on context.

[@bonisamuel1]

In portuguese you can also use "cara" for dear, but it is feminine, and "caro" as the masculine. Example "meu caro" (my dear addressing a men), "miha cara" (my dear addressing a woman). But it is not as common of a use. "querido" and "querida" is more common for saying dear.

[@robertobrother8862]

yeah, Minha Cara e Meu Caro are understood as too formal for common use

[@sbc754]

It also means expensive

[@Beijaflordaamazonia]

Oh, yes. I forgot to say it ​@@sbc754🙂

[@LuisAndion]

Some quick tips here 1. Words ending with "de" sound like the English "g", same way words ending with "te" sound like a "ch". And there are a lot of them 2. "madeira" means "wood". Although "pau" meant wood in the past, nowadays it's only used like that in old expressions. Just be careful cause nowadays "pau" by itself either means a wooden stick or, well, it's the most common slang for that male organ 3. The guy in the video taught some slang that are only really common in Rio, like "mermão", so just be aware of that

[@sica7093]

about the verb ESTAR we do this crazy cut of the begginning, so it goes like this: estar (tá) eu estou (tô), você está (tá), nós estamos (tamos), vocês estão (tão) eu estava (tava), você estava (tava), nós estavamos (tavamo, tava), vocês estavam (tavam) (***tô, tá, tamo, tão, tava, tavamo, tavam is the ONLY WAY brazilians speak this verb and the main way we write it online, too.) also for VOCÊ (you) it goes like cê (você) ceis (vocês)

[@luizfellipe3291]

2:07 this usage also exists in portuguese and the word sounds and writes 100% like it does in italian. It's just something people only use in very formal contexts

[@JPSCarlesso]

3:57 So in spoken Portuguese we have the habit of shortening some words, for example "Está" turn in to "Tá", "Você" turn in to "Cê"...

[@Beijaflordaamazonia]

I'm back 😂 About "Cara". We use "cara" as you said too. Actually there is a famous song wrote by the great poet Chico Buarque called "Meu Caro Amigo". I super recomend Chico Buarque. He is "the" master with words in brazilian music. His father, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda wrote the most complete and famous dictionary of brazilian language. Our vocabulary is bigger and reacher than the portuguese spoken in Portugal. Many of our words and expressions used in daily life are originate in África and/or came from native indigenous people language. We have word for anything although one word as cara can have many meaning 😊 One more thing, the guy from vídeo (o cara do vídeo) is totally carioca which means that he has a strong accent from Rio de Janeiro. Even "maneiro" that means cool is a very "carioca" slang. Brazil is huge and the dictionary is enormous

[@jboss1073]

The accent from Rio de Janeiro was literally made legally the standard accent of Brazil, and is indeed a standard Portuguese accent from the royal Portuguese entourage arrived after 1808. It is unaffected by Italian and German like deviated accents from elsewhere. I know it's the fad to say "everyone has an accent" but everything that goes through time must have a beginning and and end the accent in Rio de Janeiro begins and ends with the royal entourage and with having been made the standard. "Everyone has an accent" is an academic postulate, but the facts of reality are hard facts of life. Brazil speaks Portuguese. Rio de Janeiro speaks the most Portuguese Portuguese by far - unadulterated 1808 Portuguese. The word "accent" is annoying because some academics took it over and redefined it. It's better to think in terms of variations. The accent of Rio de Janeiro does not vary away from any accent from Portugal historically - on the contrary, it is a constant from the 1808 entourage who arrived there. Everywhere else in the country (with small exceptions of Portuguese settled areas more south of Rio) they speak Portuguese with variations introduced by Italian, German or other ethnic contributions. Rio de Janeiro's accent is the one exception. This is why using the word "accent" is not very helpful as it just means "variety". It's more useful for foreigners to know "where is the original Portuguese accent in Brazil" (which is in Rio de Janeiro) and "where is the language spoken with variations due to non-Portuguese ethnicities" (which is all over elsewhere).

[@edudutra]

​@@jboss1073The claim that the Rio de Janeiro accent remains unchanged since 1808 and is the "purest Portuguese" in Brazil is highly questionable. Language and accents are dynamic and evolve over time. While the arrival of the Portuguese royal court in 1808 may have influenced the local accent, it's unrealistic to assume it has remained static. The Rio accent, like all others in Brazil, has been shaped by historical, cultural, and social factors, including African and Indigenous influences. The idea that other regions' accents are "deviated" due to immigrant contributions (Italian, German, etc.) oversimplifies the complex evolution of language in Brazil. All accents, including Rio’s, have been influenced by local and external factors. Lastly, the notion that the Rio accent is the "standard" or "original" Portuguese is inaccurate. Brazil does not have an official spoken accent, only a written standard. Embracing the diversity of Brazilian Portuguese is key to understanding the richness of the country's linguistic heritage.

[@davidbio1]

Wow, those slangs are totally regional. Some are used in many parts of Brasil, but he is probably from Rio. I’m From Minas Gerais and many things he said I know but we don’t use here. And many things you said we also say, like “caro” or “cara”, which means dear too.

[@kamikaze5528]

Cara and caro have the same meaning in portuguese as they do in italian, as well. But the word Cara also means Face (and the slang he used there). And Caro means Expensive "Tá" is a very common contraction of "Está". The same applies to other conjugations, "Tô" instead of "Estou" or "Tão" isntead of "Estão."

[@felipesouza88]

we use "cara" and "caro" in that way too, but is mostly in a formal context, like in letter "caro/cara (name of the person)..." or "meu caro/cara" "Irado" comes from "ira" and can mean that someone is full of "ira" too, but is kinda formal or old and we have other words that we use more in the place of "ira" or "irado".

[@PC_Simo]

6:00 In Finnish (and English, I think) slang, we use ”Kisu” or ”Misu” (literally: ”Kitty”), to mean a pretty girl. We also have the word: ”Kolli”, meaning, specifically: ”Male Cat”. We don’t usually use it to mean a handsome man; but, to me, thinking about it like that, viewing it through that lense; I could run with that.

[@ALEXANDRECARDOSO-zy9rv]

"Caro" and "cara" have also the same meaning in Brazil: dear Mostly used on e-mails Example: Caro Alexandre, ... Cara Alice, ...

[@RicardoCebola]

Already a lot of people explaining Cara. About “pau” we have several words for wood. Pau is more like “stick” than wood. General wood would be “Madeira”. If we are talking firewood then we use “lenha” - closer to the Italian you mentioned. This in European Portuguese but I think it is the same. I was impressed by a Brazilian shortening the “está” to a “tá” and while not being exactly fast he talks on a somewhat closer pace to European Portuguese, shortening words and breaking the mostly syllable timed language they have.

[@Augusto9588]

Shortening "está" to "tá" is very common in most of the country, despite of the pace that a person is talking. The only settings that you see people use "está" correctly is in very formal situations or among rich people.

[@cronnosli]

Actually "pau" does not means stick, "pau" literally meand any piece of wood that has a rigid and enloged form, from sticks, branches, logs, fance, poles, etc. And comes from latim "pālus", This also explain the similarity of Latim "pālus" and Greek "Phallós" as the mans genitals are elongated and rigid so "Phallós" becomes "falo" and "pau", remember that P and F are very close consonants.

[@cronnosli]

@@Augusto9588 Here in Curitiba we interchange the use of "está"/"tá". Sometimes i say "Eu estou" sometimes "Eu to", not just in formal situations.

[@R_lulu]

2:07 It's the same in Portuguese, but most people don't use it in coloquial conversation. I do, however, use "cara" to refer both to my female and male friends: For males, meaning "dude", "homie", "bro", "mate" and etc, and for females, meaning "dear"

[@marcelohadid4046]

Hey, bubba! Love your work! In Brazilian Portuguese some words are shortened in spoken language... está = tá /tah/, estou= tô /tow/, estamos = tamu or tamo /tum-moo/, estão = tão /tan - un/... lenha is also used for wood, especially one that's used to kindle a fire; it's like the feminine of legno... Caro/a is dear in formal lgg and the adjective for expensive (like in Nnapulitano and Sicilianu): Esse restaurante é muito caro! This restaurante is very expensive! (Chisto risturante è assaje caro! Stu risturanti è troppu caru!). There are a lot of words in Brazilian Portuguese similar to Italiano/Sicilianu/Tuscano/Nnapulitanu not only because of Latin, but also due the massive Italian immigration in 1880's and 1930's. There are many Brazilians that speaks "Italian" at home on a daily basis. Brazil has the largest population of Italian heritage outside Italy, approximately 35 million. Pls, visit Brazil! It's going to be awesome! Keep up the good work!

[@rod_ferro]

3:44 "como você tá hoje?" you were not far off... I'd say "como cê tá hoje?"

[@RonaldoAlvesdeAbreu]

Oddly to say Portuguese use the same contraction "está" turns into "tá" in day-to-day conversations.

[@jboss1073]

"Cara" is from Celtic, it means "ball" there.

[@sica7093]

it is important to notice that this person is extremely carioca (from the city of rio de janeiro) so he is teaching carioca slang and with a strong carioca accent!

[@gustavobuenovittorino474]

Which is the mainly spoken in Brazil TV. So sounds legit cuz every brazilian will understand easily.

[@viomayer5493]

Exactly. We never use "maneiro" and "perrengue" here in Rio Grande do Sul, though we have our own VERY unique vernacular words as well lol

[@amonprassodia1428]

​@@gustavobuenovittorino474 My thoughts exactly

[@sica7093]

@@gustavobuenovittorino474 not exactly, there's strong downplaying of the accent for nationwide television. his is strong and he doesn't really care

[@jboss1073]

Carioca "accent" is just post-1808 Portuguese royal entourage accent. Everywhere else in Brazil there is a true "accent" in that it deviates from any accent from Portugal due to influence from other ethnicities such as Italian and German (not to mention other races). However, the Carioca "accent" does not have non-Portuguese influence, and all its Portuguese influence comes from one migration because of Napoleon.

[@MiguelbutwithaO]

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[@glowskull2000]

The additional explanations that people are making in the comments are also great, you should read them for farther immersion in the language.

[@TheRealGhebs]

4:26 we also have the word "lenha", but that means timber specifically. The most common word for wood is "madeira", and that's the one you should use most lf the time, because "pau" is mostly used as wood in a dirty sense or in fixed expressions like "cara de pau".

[@alexlindner2009]

4:55 actually you would say: "madeira" witch means wood, "pau" is more like, a branch of a tree, but usually if its in an structure you say "madeira"

[@irgendwer3610]

when talking about the material (wood) we usually say madeira (like the name of the island). So the stairs são escadas de madeira

[@yulong29]

In Brazilian Portuguese "cara" and "caro" it's also use as "my dear", but it's mostly used by older people or when someone wants to adress to others in the most polite way possible.

[@Luigi-hn1hu]

You should watch mote of this channel

[@luisfelipegoncalves4977]

4:01 We love to abbreviate our words kinda to save our saliva, when he said "tá" it is a abbreviated form to "está", gramatically speaking the former is correct but colloquially you will hear people in the street and even at formal places saying "tá", as well as the for "You", "Você", it will be more common for you to hear people say just "cê", or even "Tu" if you go to the Southern or Northeastern regions of our country.

[@VamosViverFora]

In Portuguese lenha means wood but for fireplace. Pau is like any generic piece of wood. And obviously it’s one of the slangs for the “member”.

[@MaxTargin0]

Sua reação foi maneira, cara! 😂😂😂😂

[@DrakoPirocudo]

we have a lot of contractions in portuguese, so instead of saying "como você está" é "como você tá" specially because você and Está ends in the same letter, we just turn it into one word. There also like "Abra a porta" (open the door) we just say "abraporta"

[@arsnakehert]

Irado is probably like "wicked" in English A word to describe something bad, but used in contexts where it's good, in a youthful way I think 凄い (sugoi) in Japanese also has the same vibe, it actually means something terrible but is often used for stuff that is great or amazing

[@Octavivs]

We have "lenha" meaning the wood we cut for fire, and "pau" is the same as "madeira", both mening wood. Pau also has a slang meaning of penis, that's why Brazilians laugh when foreigners say "pau" trying to say "pão" (bread) 😂

[@TempRario-jl1wg]

Cara also means dear in brazillian Portuguese... its just not as common nowadays, its an old way to say it But you would say: Meu caro or Minha cara

[@joocco]

"maneiro" is a slang that is present since the 70s

[@ritoalfa1346]

the pronunciation "Tá" is an abreviation of the word "Está" which means "to be" in portuguese, commonly used to say things like "você está/tá bem?"(are you alright?) or "eu estou/tô em casa"(i'm in home)

[@DimitriMoreira]

And the "irado" is a little hard to explain. There's a Brazilian heavy metal band, that Slipknot and musicians like Dave Groul love to listen to, called "Ira" and that's the verb used for "irado". "Ira" wouldn't exactly translate as "hate" (ódio) or "anger" (raiva) but somewhere in between. So the fact that we use "irado" to describe something NICE is... A bigger jump than expected 😂😂

[@mojolols9082]

Im not Brazilian, im British but I speak Portuguese, my fiancé is from Recife (in the northeast of Brazil) and usually “como está” is usually pronounced “como ta” or sometimes como ce ta (como você está) when Brazilians say está, usually they will just say “ta” for example “está bom?” Would usually just be “tabom”

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Cara e caro also mean the same thing in Portuguese. But we will usually use MY before. Like "meu caro amigo" So it's up to context. Cara is also one side of the coin. Head or tails: cara ou coroa. Coroa means crown. I think CARA is the side of the coin where you usually had the face of a king, etc, which is probably the reason it became synonym with FACE. The "dude" slang probably comes from one or the other. Slangs are hard to trace. Sometimes they make little sense. Someone invents them and people like and they spread like wildfire in little time

[@deathtoraiden2080]

Cara and Caro also exist in European Portuguese to refer to someone as Dear (sort of of), but it has a formal implication. You would say it to someone you hold in high esteem like "meu caro amigo" (my dear friend). It's colloquial speech but it's a formal expression. It's like: i hold you in such esteem that i am gonna use this fancy term to refer to you. It's also used a lot sarcastically because of that implied formality. Cara also means Face but it does not mean Dude, that's a Brazilian thing only. He does not say "étá" or "está" he just contracts it to tá. That is very common in Portuguese. Pau actually means wooden stick, not wood. Wood is Madeira. So no, you would not say that staircase is "made of pau". Pau is also slang for a certain anatomical feature, but only in Brazilian Portuguese. I am guessing Irado maybe means the same it means in Italian, it means "aroused to anger". A lot of those things he put out there are only Brazilian slang, they have their proper meaning outside of that. Sinistro means Sinister, Legal means....well, Legal (in law terms) and Massa can mean different things (including Pasta).

[@DiesIraeJC]

"Pau" means wood, but we say "lenha" for chopped wood. We share way more vocabularies with Italian, but maybe you wouldn't hear because we have synonyms words that are more commonly used

[@IuriFiedoruk]

In portuguese se algo have "caro"/"cara" as dear, like in the sentence "Meu caro, como você está hoje?", but it is barely used by younger (30-) people anymore. And we have "lenha" for chopped wood.

[@trinidad17]

Btw "cara" in Portuguese can also mean the same as in Italian ("dear") and you can use "cara" and "caro", usually "minha cara" like "minha cara irmã"

[@Argentum_Rex]

I hope you can react to more Argentine Spanish and lunfardo (slang). Particularly from porteños but also from other provinces so you can hear the different accents.

[@motociclebersonfranklyn5133]

React to Gugu Gaiteiro's accent.

[@Chaluad]

In portuguese "caro" (masculine) or "cara" (feminine) also means dear, but it isn't used much. About "está", he's just using the coloquial form where you skip the "es". Finally, "irado" means "enraged" ("brabo"/"bravo" also means that) in portuguese as the italian "irato", but it also means "cool" here.

[@cornervermelho]

R in start of a word have a H sound, double R too. However a single R in the middle of a word follow by a vowel have a R sound of the Japanese word. This may change according to the accent.

[@userJanus3003]

When I (an American) was taught Brazilian Portuguese, I was told that when a word ends with L, it sounds like a W. So "Legaw" or "Brasiw." I've kept it in mind for pronunciation

[@yammarques]

irado also means furious, wrathful, but somehow we rarely use it like that

[@Budah_01]

Caro and Cara can also mean dear in portuguese! Meu Caro (My dear for men), Minha Cara (My dear for women). Está and Estou ("It is", "I am") can be simplified to: "Tá" and "Tô". Your "Legno" in italian is close to "Lenha" wich also means Wood

[@linkow]

"Cara" doesn't mean "face" colloquially. It means "face" period. Although, it is considered somewhat more rude than just the word "face" (yes, it's written the same way as in English). It came from Greek "kára" (head) and is connected to the word "cranium". By extension, "cara" can also mean "facial expression". I don't know where the meaning of "dude" came from, but perhaps by synecdoche to first mean "person" and then "dude"? "Gato" does mean "cat". The meaning of "attractive" is colloquial. "Maneiro" is connected to "manner", it used to mean "well-mannered", "skillful", "graceful", but the word is rarely used in this way anymore (even though the dictionary still register those meanings). It eventually came to mean "good", "useful", and finally "cool" (as in awesome), and is virtually only used like that. E.g.: "Que maneiro!" means "That's awesome!" "Perrengue" is from Spanish "perro" (dog) and has a similar meaning to "dog's life" (vida de cão), meaning an unpleasant or difficult situation. Edit: I saw some people mention "pau". Yes, it means "stick" nowadays, but in old Portuguese it literally meant "wood". That's why "pau-brasil" is "brazilwood" and not "madeira-brasil" or "brazilstick".

[@Luigi-hn1hu]

Face, in portuguese is pronounced fá-ssi, diferently from english

[@linkow]

@Luigi-hn1hu and?

[@jboss1073]

Cara does not come from Greek "kara", it comes from Celtic *kaira.

[@linkow]

@@jboss1073 pretty much every dictionary I checked says it's from Greek. What's your source?

[@jboss1073]

@@linkow @linkow They can say it's from Greek but they cannot document it. However, I document what I say. Cara must be from Celtic *kaira < metathesized from *karia, from the already-existing PIE root *ker "head". The source for the PIE root is Pokorny 574-77. The rest of the source is Higino Martins Esteves work "Etimologias obscuras ou esconsas". The sorbus aucuparia tree, the sacred tree of the druids, whose fruits are small little red balls, is called in ogham "Cairatini", from Proto-Celtic *kairatenos "the balled thing". For confirmation of this, the word "careca" is from that Celtic root *kaira too, making it cognate with "cara". It is from Celtic *kaira + *-ika, "ball shaped, ball-like". The famous curse word c***lho is also from the same Celtic root, from Proto-Celtic *kaira + *-tlo/*-culum, meaning "small head". Hence the derivation from Celtic *kaira, from PIE *ker "head" is much more documented than any Greek possibility. It is also rare for a Greek word to become part of the popular speech of a language as far-flung from it as Portuguese.

[@VamosViverFora]

If you watch Bocelli in Portofini he sings in Brazilian Portuguese.

[@FabioLuizBraggio]

"cara" also means "dear" (female) in portuguese, pretty much like in Italian. Caro / cara, esattamente come in italiano

[@alb91878]

5:23 we do that in Puerto Rican Spanish, too.

[@UmCaraQualquer48]

Caro and cara have the meaning of dear in portuguese too.

[@alexandremiranda66]

Giocando impari il portoghese. La tua pronuncia è molto buona e capisci bene le sottigliezze della lingua.

[@magvs_mæstro216]

Obrigado, sifu Metatron 🙏🏼

[@LuizfTri99]

DAÓRA (very nice) MANO (dude) DI BOA (all right), SUAVE (all right), SALVE ( hellou) MÓ RESENHA (good conversation or a cool person or place) DAR UM PEÃO, ROLE (go out somewhere) PARÇA ( can be used as "friend" or "companion") ...are also widely used

[@mgoncalves5596]

Da hora* De boa*

[@MrFurukawa1]

3:51 You are absolutely right. He Said "TÁ" instead "ESTÁ" in order to sound more natural and organic when speaking. Studying and understanding word reduction will help you to improve your listening comprehension. @SpeakingBrazilian have an excellent explanation about it with examples. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5DCln1teMaca5o Also she is a good channel to do your research into Brazilian Portuguese

[@mattvideoeditor]

Just to complicate more, "cara" can mean something expensive. Like a purse. "A bolsa é muito cara!" If you think about it, just like cara means "dear" in Italian, it means the purse has value, so it's cara. Also, when we refer to a random guy as "cara", we are also meaning he is "another face". An unknown face.

[@dantemeriere5890]

Cara can mean multiple things, including feminine dear like in Italian(my dear girl = minha cara). It also means something feminine is expensive, like "this video card is expensive"(essa placa [de video] é cara).

[@raulzilla]

Caro / Cara also means "Dear" in Portuguese.

[@raulzilla]

Also "Pau" means something like "Piece of Wood", wood in Portuguese (any version of it) is "Madeira", so in the context of his house we would use "madeira" to describe it not "pau". Specially because "pau" can also be a slang for penis.

[@RomaCatholica]

Metatron, daora also means nice, but he didn't present that slang. Irado e irascível are also related to rage and rageful.

[@LeonardoRodriguesTeixeira]

"Cara" may be used in the EXACT same manner as Italian "Cara mia". And we have "Caro" as well "Caro amigo".

[@MattOG05]

There is an expression, which is more common in the North of Brazil, that literally means "castrate the cat". It is used when you wanna get out of a place quiclky or runaway from somewhere. "Capar o gato"

[@DimitriMoreira]

"Cara" is mainly used to refer to men, but you can safely use it with women too if you've got any level of intimacy. Also, "wood" is "madeira" and not "pau". The word you described in Italian "legno"? Exists as "Lenha" and the "nh" sounds exactly like the "ñ" in Spanish or the "gn" in Italian.

[@adrianaoliveira92]

"Cara" also means "dear" for women and "caro" for men, but in formal Portuguese. As a slang, it means "saúde" or "bro", and it just for men.

[@Heidinskapur]

Metatron falando português KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK Você se daria muito bem no Brasil, meu nobre (versão brasileira de Noble One).

[@ShebbaRod]

He is very "carioca" so a lot of his slangs are from Rio, but since it´s the most touristic place from Brazil it makes sense to learn it.

[@jboss1073]

It's not because "it's the most touristic place" that it makes sense to learn the Carioca accent, but rather because it was legally made the standard Brazilian accent, and also because it is the most Portuguese accent that is the least affected by Italian, German or other accents.

[@Miguel_Silva_]

“Pau” means wood in a colloquial language. You could say “boneco de pau” (wooden doll), but in general “pau” means “stick” (or the male reproductive organ). For structures, stairs or most things we use the word “madeira”.

[@gabrieldias3479]

"Cara de pau" in Italian has the same meaning of "facia di bronzo". Same body part (the face), different material (wood X bronze). Italians are fancier. (on a side note: I find it funny that when Italians try to pronounce portuguese they put on an English accent 😅 -- Metatron isn't the first one I've heard doing that)

[@DerekWitt]

Oh my. When I first saw the Portuguese word “maneiro,” I admittedly thought of a Spanish swear word that starts with an M.

[@Leonardo7772012]

Caro/cara in portuguese ( not slang) means " dear" for example: caro amigo, cara amiga... ( dear friend) The same as in italian. And...." Pau" or " lenho/ lenha".." madeiro"

[@quindin]

but "caro"/"cara" also means "dear" in Portuguese for he/she and "caríssimo/a" is "very dear"... Also "caro" means "expensive", and "cara" can mean "dude" as a slang mostly for male friends but sometimes you can put it for a very closely female friend, informally of course.

[@DiesIraeJC]

Legal = legal Bacana = nice Irado = nice, very good, crazy, angry, furious Sinistro = can be used like "legal" and "bacana", but also as "creep" and "frightful" Brabo = corruption of "bravo". "Brabo" means nice, very good, good job. "Bravo" means angry or brave Massa = cool, nice, very good, but also dough (food) and cement

[@joocco]

I think maneiro = since 70s (more frequent to say when we are children or teens) legal = probably older, since 60s, and more usual for people of all ages. bacana = even older, perhaps since 50s sinistro, irado = began around 90s, using an antithetic meaning, a bit like "terrific" brabo = brave (bravo < latin barbarus), wild, savage, violent, war-like massa = is a regional slang very spread in Brazilian hinterland and Northern Brazil. In Rio de Janeiro we never say that

[@JAOResnik]

The correct would be saying "está" like you did, but in coloquial language we skip the "es" and just say "tá"

[@DenisRizzoli]

More literal meanings Legal = legal Bacana = cool, nice Irado, brabo = angry, mad. Brabo is a misspelling of "bravo" Sinistro = terrible Massa = mass Show = in Brazil, usually means "concert"

[@andyaknoby5007]

Como você tá hoje? Yeah speaking we short está to tá when it's not formal. I'm happy you like Brazilian Portuguese! Irado can be used for angry too. I can say is a perrengue learn my third language!

[@Frey_2026]

lol, about the wood, in portuguese in can be pau, madeira or lenha. So the last word is kinda similar to italian