Questions & Answers about Não leias as notificações frequentemente!
The lesson covers words like muitas vezes. Can I use that instead of frequentemente here?
Yes, you can! Não leias as notificações muitas vezes! means exactly the same thing. Frequentemente is just another way to say it, formed by taking the adjective frequente (frequent) and adding -mente (which works like the English suffix -ly). Why does the verb use the form leias instead of the regular lês or lê?
Because this is a negative command. In Portuguese, telling someone not to do something forces the verb into a different form (the subjunctive mood). To tell a friend to read, you use the affirmative command lê, but to say do not read, it changes to não leias. What is the singular form of notificações?
The singular is a notificação. Most feminine nouns ending in the nasal sound -ção form their plural by dropping the -ão and adding -ões. Where else can I place the adverb frequentemente in this sentence?
You could put it right after the verb: Não leias frequentemente as notificações! Putting it at the very beginning is grammatically possible but sounds a bit unnatural for a direct negative command. Learn Não leias as notificações frequentemente and more in Portuguese
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