Word
O meu avô dorme naquele cadeirão no salão.
Meaning
My grandfather sleeps in that armchair in the large hall.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of O meu avô dorme naquele cadeirão no salão.
em
in / on / at
meu
my
aquele
that over there (+ noun)
dormir
to sleep
Questions & Answers about O meu avô dorme naquele cadeirão no salão.
Both cadeirão and salão end in -ão. Are they augmentatives of other words?
Yes! The word cadeirão comes from cadeira (chair), so it literally means a big chair, which we call an armchair. Similarly, salão comes from sala (room), meaning a very large room, lounge, or hall.
Since cadeira and sala are feminine words, why does the sentence use the masculine words naquele and no before them?
How would I make cadeirão and salão plural if there were multiple armchairs or halls?
Most augmentative words ending in -ão form their plural by changing to -ões. To talk about multiple armchairs, you would say cadeirões, and for multiple halls, you would say salões.
Why does the sentence start with O meu avô instead of just Meu avô?