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Os corações daquelas pessoas nunca estão vazios.

Os corações daquelas pessoas nunca estão vazios.
The hearts of those people are never empty.
From Lesson 60:Double negation (nunca, nada, ninguém)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Os corações daquelas pessoas nunca estão vazios.

We learned about the double negative rule. Why isn't there a não in this sentence?
In Portuguese, if a negative word like nunca (never) comes before the verb, you don't use não. You only use a double negative (adding não before the verb) if the negative word comes after the verb. For example, if the word order were different, it would be: Os corações não estão nunca vazios.
The word pessoas is feminine. Why does the sentence end with the masculine adjective vazios?
Adjectives describe specific nouns and must match their gender and number. Here, vazios (empty) describes the hearts (os corações, which is masculine plural), not the people (pessoas).
How do we get corações from the singular word for heart?
The singular is coração. In Portuguese, most nouns ending in -ão form their plural by changing the ending to -ões. So, coração becomes corações.
What is the word daquelas made of?
It is a contraction of the preposition de (of) and the word aquelas (those). When you want to say "of those" referring to a feminine plural noun like pessoas, you merge them into a single word: daquelas.
Why do we use estão (from the verb estar) instead of são (from the verb ser) here?
The verb estar is used for states or conditions. Even though the sentence says the hearts are never empty, being full or empty is treated as a changeable condition or state of the heart, so we use estar.

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