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Não temos medo da morte.

Não temos medo da morte.
We are not afraid of death.
From Lesson 108:A vida e a morte (morrer, vivo)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Breakdown of Não temos medo da morte.

não
not / no
ter medo de
to be afraid of
a morte
the death

Questions & Answers about Não temos medo da morte.

Why does this sentence use temos (we have) instead of a word for 'we are'?
In Portuguese, you use the verb ter (to have) to express certain feelings or physical states where English uses 'to be'. So, instead of saying 'we are afraid', you literally say 'we have fear' (temos medo). This pattern is also used for feeling hungry (ter fome), thirsty (ter sede), and cold (ter frio).
Why is it da morte and not just de morte?
Da is a combination of the word de (of) and the feminine word for 'the', a. In English, we just say 'death' when talking about it generally, but Portuguese requires the definite article before abstract nouns. So the sentence translates literally as 'We do not have fear of the death'.
Does the da match with medo or morte?
It matches with morte (death), which is a feminine noun. A common beginner mistake is trying to make the article match the masculine word medo (fear) that comes earlier in the sentence, but the article always agrees with the noun that immediately follows it.
Where is the word for 'we' in this sentence?
The word nós (we) is left out because the verb temos already tells us exactly who is doing the action. Saying Nós não temos medo is perfectly correct, but dropping the pronoun is much more natural in everyday Portuguese.

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