Breakdown of Nenhuma despedida é para sempre, porque o nosso amor é eterno.
ser
to be
sempre
always
nosso
our (m/f/pl: nosso, nossa, nossos, nossas)
para
to / for
porque
because
o
him/it (m)
nenhum
no / none / not any (quantity)
o amor
the love
a despedida
the farewell
eterno
eternal
Questions & Answers about Nenhuma despedida é para sempre, porque o nosso amor é eterno.
This lesson is about expressing wishes with the subjunctive. Why are we using the indicative é here instead?
Even though the sentence is emotional, it states a fact rather than a wish. If you wanted to say 'May our love be eternal!' (a direct wish), you would use the subjunctive: Que o nosso amor seja eterno! Here, you are stating that it already is eternal (é eterno), which requires the normal indicative.
If nenhuma means 'no' or 'not any', why isn't there a não in the first half of the sentence?
Why do we say o nosso amor instead of just nosso amor?
European Portuguese almost always requires the definite article (o or a) before a possessive word when a noun follows. Because amor is masculine, it must be o nosso amor (literally, 'the our love').
Why is 'forever' translated as para sempre? Could we use por sempre?
Para sempre is a fixed phrase meaning 'forever'. The preposition para is used here because it points towards a destination or an endpoint in time (in this case, infinity), whereas por would normally suggest a measurable duration.
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