Word
Não como carne de porco.
Meaning
I do not eat pork.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Não como carne de porco.
não
not / no
de
of / from / by (means of transport) / wearing (attire)
comer
to eat
a carne
the meat
Questions & Answers about Não como carne de porco.
Why is the word for "I" missing in this sentence?
Why do we say carne de porco instead of just porco to mean pork?
To talk about eating an animal's meat, Portuguese typically uses the phrase carne de (meat of) followed by the animal. So, carne de porco is literally "meat of pig". You will also see this with beef: carne de vaca (meat of cow).
Why doesn't the sentence translate "do not" literally?
Why is it de porco and not do porco?
We use the simple preposition de (of) instead of do (of the) because we are talking about pork as a general category of food. We are saying "pig meat", not "meat of the specific pig".