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Vocês mesmos podem empurrar os halteres com maior resistência.

Vocês mesmos podem empurrar os halteres com maior resistência.
You yourselves can push the dumbbells with greater resistance.
From Lesson 295:Emphatic pronouns (próprio, mesmo)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Vocês mesmos podem empurrar os halteres com maior resistência.

Why does this sentence use mesmos instead of just mesmo?
In this sentence, mesmo is acting as an emphatic pronoun meaning "yourselves" to emphasize exactly who is doing the action. Because it refers back to the plural pronoun vocês, it has to agree in gender and number, changing to mesmos (assuming a mixed or all-male group).
Could I use próprios instead of mesmos in this sentence?
Yes! You can say vocês próprios and it means the exact same thing: "you yourselves". Both are commonly used in European Portuguese to emphasize that people are doing an action personally rather than having someone else do it.
Why is it maior resistência instead of mais grande resistência?
Just like in English where we say "greater" instead of "more great", Portuguese uses the irregular comparative word maior for "bigger" or "greater". Saying "mais grande" is grammatically incorrect in Portuguese.
What is the singular form of os halteres?
The singular form is o haltere, which is a masculine noun meaning "dumbbell" or "weight". Because it ends in a vowel, you simply add an "s" to make the plural os halteres.

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