Word
A policial disse que, se a sirene tocar de novo, ninguém deve atravessar a faixa de pedestres.
Meaning
The police officer said that if the siren sounds again, nobody should cross the crosswalk.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of A policial disse que, se a sirene tocar de novo, ninguém deve atravessar a faixa de pedestres.
se
if
que
that
ninguém
nobody
atravessar
to cross
Questions & Answers about A policial disse que, se a sirene tocar de novo, ninguém deve atravessar a faixa de pedestres.
Why is it a policial and not a polícia?
A policial means the police officer and specifically refers to a female officer here because of the article a.
- o policial = the male police officer
- a policial = the female police officer
- a polícia = the police force / police institution
So in this sentence, a policial is a person, not the police as an organization.
Why is it disse que?
After the verb dizer (to say), Portuguese normally introduces reported speech or a reported statement with que.
- Ela disse que... = She said that...
- Ele falou que... = He said that...
So A policial disse que... simply means The police officer said that...
There is nothing unusual here: que is the normal connector for that in this kind of sentence.
Why is it se a sirene tocar instead of se a sirene toca?