Crime e autoridade (o tiro, a bala)

The news you will actually read

You already know o crime, a polícia, o ladrão, roubar, o assassino. The B2 news layer adds the instruments and the acts:

wordmeaning
o tirothe shot, the gunshot
a balathe bullet
atacarto attack
enganarto deceive, to trick
o oficialthe officer
The neighbours heard a gunshot during the night.
Os vizinhos ouviram um tiro durante a noite.

enganar also has the everyday pronominal reading you will hear constantly: enganei-me — I made a mistake, I got it wrong.

perdido

perdido is the participle of perder used as an adjective: lost. The tourist is wandering lost in the city centre.

O turista anda perdido no centro da cidade. Figuratively too: estou perdido — I'm done for.

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