Word
Ninguém mora naquele andar durante o inverno.
Meaning
Nobody lives on that floor during the winter.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Ninguém mora naquele andar durante o inverno.
em
in / on / at
morar
to live
aquele
that over there (+ noun)
ninguém
nobody / anybody
Questions & Answers about Ninguém mora naquele andar durante o inverno.
The sentence mentions an andar (floor). How do we use the ordinal numbers from this lesson to say "first floor" or "second floor"?
Why do we use naquele instead of just aquele for "that"?
To say "on that" or "in that", Portuguese combines the preposition em (in/on/at) with the word aquele (that) to make the contraction naquele. Because andar is masculine and singular, the contraction stays in its masculine singular form.
Does ninguém (nobody) always take the singular verb form like mora?
Yes! Just like in English where we say "nobody lives" (treating it as a single unit), Portuguese indefinite pronouns like ninguém (nobody), alguém (somebody), and tudo (everything) always use the third-person singular verb conjugation. This is the exact same form you use for ele, ela, or você.
Why is there an o before inverno? English just says "during winter" here.