Breakdown of É desesperante, nós já nos fartámos de arranjar a mosquiteira.
ser
to be
nós
we
já
already
arranjar
to fix; to get hold of
fartar-se de
to get sick of / to do excessively
desesperante
exasperating
a mosquiteira
the mosquito net
Questions & Answers about É desesperante, nós já nos fartámos de arranjar a mosquiteira.
Does fartar-se de arranjar just mean "got sick of fixing", or is there another nuance here?
While it translates well to "got sick of", this structure (fartar-se de + infinitive) is specifically an aspectual periphrasis showing excessive action. It emphasizes that you did the action a ridiculous or exhausting number of times. It essentially means we fixed this over and over again until we couldn't take it anymore.
Why does fartámos have an accent mark on the A?
In European Portuguese, this acute accent distinguishes the past tense (pretérito perfeito) from the present tense for first-person plural -ar verbs. Fartámos is past tense with an open A sound, whereas fartamos without the accent is present tense with a closed A sound.
Why is the pronoun nos placed before the verb instead of attached to the end?
Does desesperante imply literal despair here?
It shares a root with desespero (despair), but in everyday contexts like fixing a mosquito net, desesperante just means extremely frustrating, infuriating, or exasperating.
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