The Desk Set
| word | |
|---|---|
| a secretária | the desk — and also the secretary |
| o gabinete | the office (one person's room) |
| a fotocópia | the photocopy |
| a impressora | the printer |
| o apagador | the board eraser |
| o marcador | the marker |
O escritório is the office as a workplace; o gabinete is the room with one name on the door.
| The office printer does not work. | A impressora do gabinete não trabalha. |
School Business
A matrícula is the enrolment (fazer a matrícula), os trabalhos de casa the homework — plural, like the chores they are. Reprovar is to fail: reprovei no teste. Its happy opposite, passar, you already use.
Nouns That Break the Gender Rules
Since A1 you have known o problema — masculine despite the -a. It has cousins: o dia, o mapa, o programa. And a second family has ONE form for both genders, with only the article moving: o estudante / a estudante, o colega / a colega, o artista / a artista. Never invent "a estudanta" — the article does all the work.
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