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A mulher suspira porque a cadeira é muito desconfortável.

A mulher suspira porque a cadeira é muito desconfortável.
The woman sighs because the chair is very uncomfortable.
From Lesson 285:Agreeing and confirming (pois, pois é)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about A mulher suspira porque a cadeira é muito desconfortável.

Since this lesson is about pois, could I use it instead of porque in this sentence?
Yes! While this lesson focuses on pois for agreeing, it can also mean "because" or "since". You could say A mulher suspira pois a cadeira é muito desconfortável. It sounds a little more formal than porque, but means the exact same thing here.
Why does this sentence use é instead of está for "is very uncomfortable"?
The verb ser (here as é) is used because being uncomfortable is an inherent, permanent trait of this specific chair's design. If you used está, it would mean the chair is only temporarily uncomfortable, perhaps because it is currently broken or positioned badly.
If we were talking about multiple chairs, how would desconfortável change?
Portuguese adjectives ending in -al, -el, -ol, or -ul usually drop the -l and add -is in the plural. So, if the subject were plural, you would say as cadeiras são muito desconfortáveis.
Why doesn't muito change to muita to match the feminine noun cadeira?
Because here muito is acting as an adverb meaning "very" to describe how uncomfortable the chair is, and adverbs never change their gender or number. It would only change to muita if it meant "a lot of" and came directly before a feminine noun.

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