O arranhão no braço ainda me incomoda.

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Breakdown of O arranhão no braço ainda me incomoda.

• me: me
• em: on
• incomodar: to bother

Questions & Answers about O arranhão no braço ainda me incomoda.

Why is it o arranhão and not um arranhão?

O means the, so o arranhão refers to a specific scratch that is already known from the context.

If you said um arranhão, that would mean a scratch, usually introducing it as new information.

Also, arranhão is a masculine noun, so it takes o, not a.

Is arranhão just scratch, or does it suggest a big scratch?

Arranhão is the normal everyday word for a scratch or scrape.

It is related to the verb arranhar = to scratch. The ending -ão often appears in augmentatives, so sometimes the word can sound like a more noticeable or rougher scratch, but in real everyday use it is very often just the ordinary word for a scratch.

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