Breakdown of O ladrão fez uma ameaça perigosa.
um
a / an / some (all forms)
fazer
to do
perigoso
dangerous
o
him/it (m)
o ladrão
the thief
a ameaça
the threat
Questions & Answers about O ladrão fez uma ameaça perigosa.
How would we use this sentence with nem que to say 'even if the thief made a dangerous threat'?
To match the grammar in your current lesson, you would need to change the verb fez (Simple Past) into the Imperfect Subjunctive. The phrase becomes nem que o ladrão fizesse uma ameaça perigosa. This structure is used to express a hypothetical extreme condition in the past.
What is the plural of ladrão, and how do we say it if the thief is female?
Why is the verb fez used here instead of the Imperfect past tense, fazia?
We use fez (the Pretérito Perfeito) because making the threat is being treated as a single, completed event in the past. If you used fazia, it would imply that the thief was repeatedly making threats, or was in the middle of making one when something else interrupted.
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