Breakdown of Para além de terem visão de raio-X, eles curam a cidade.
de
of / from / by (means of transport) / wearing (attire)
eles
they (m)
ter
to have
a cidade
the city
para além de
in addition to
a visão
the vision
o raio-X
the X-ray
curar
to heal (an illness or person)
Questions & Answers about Para além de terem visão de raio-X, eles curam a cidade.
Why use terem instead of just the regular infinitive ter?
After the preposition de in phrases like para além de, we use an infinitive. Here, we use the personal infinitive (an infinitive conjugated to match the subject). Because the subject doing the having is plural ('they'), we conjugate ter to terem. This smoothly links the action in the first clause to the subject eles in the second clause.
Can I use além de instead of para além de?
Could I include the subject in the first half and say Para além de eles terem...?
You could, and it would be grammatically correct. However, because the ending of terem already indicates a third-person plural subject, and the main clause explicitly states eles, adding it to the first clause sounds repetitive. Portuguese naturally drops the pronoun when the personal infinitive makes it obvious.
Why is there a de in visão de raio-X?
In English, we can stack nouns directly next to each other (like 'X-ray vision'). In Portuguese, you almost always need a preposition (usually de) to connect a noun to the noun that describes it. So it literally translates to 'vision of X-ray'.
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