Breakdown of O censo indica que dez por cento da população mora aqui.
do
of the / from the (do, da, dos, das)
aqui
here
dez
ten
morar
to live
o
him/it (m)
que
that (conjunction)
a população
the population
por cento
percent
o censo
the census
indicar
to indicate
Questions & Answers about O censo indica que dez por cento da população mora aqui.
Why is the verb mora in the singular when dez por cento represents a plural amount of people?
Could I use the plural verb moram in this sentence instead?
Yes, you can. Portuguese grammar allows the verb to agree either with the noun (população, which gives mora) or with the percentage number itself (dez, which gives moram). Agreeing with the singular noun is very common and sounds natural here.
If we removed da população and just said 'The census indicates that ten percent live here', how would that affect the verb?
I have seen the word senso spelled with an s. Is censo a spelling variation?
They are completely different words that happen to sound exactly the same. Censo (with a c) means census, just like in this sentence. Senso (with an s) means sense, as in senso comum (common sense) or bom senso (good sense).
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