Word
O meu sócio não investiria nisso.
Meaning
My partner would not invest in that.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of O meu sócio não investiria nisso.
isso
that
não
not / no
em
in / on / at
meu
my (m/f/pl: meu, minha, meus, minhas)
Questions & Answers about O meu sócio não investiria nisso.
How is the conditional verb investiria formed?
It comes from the regular verb investir (to invest). To form the conditional tense for a third-person subject like o meu sócio, you take the full infinitive and add the ending -ia. So, investir + -ia becomes investiria (would invest).
Where does the word nisso come from?
nisso is a mandatory contraction. It combines the preposition em (in/on) with the pronoun isso (that). The verb investir is usually followed by em (to invest in), so when you want to say "invest in that", it combines into investiria nisso.
Does sócio mean a romantic partner or a business partner?
A sócio is specifically a business partner, or a registered member/associate of a club. If you wanted to talk about a romantic partner, you would use parceiro (partner) or namorado (boyfriend).
Why is there an O at the very beginning of the sentence?
In European Portuguese, it is standard to put a definite article (o or a, meaning "the") before a possessive word like meu (my). So you literally say O meu sócio (The my partner), even though in English we just say "My partner".