Breakdown of Não fiques desapontado com a oportunidade que tinhas perdido.
não
not / no
ter
to have
com
with
a
to / at (direction)
perder
to lose
ficar
to become
que
who / which / that (relative)
desapontado
disappointed
a oportunidade
the opportunity
Questions & Answers about Não fiques desapontado com a oportunidade que tinhas perdido.
Why do we use tinhas perdido instead of the simple past perdeste?
Tinhas perdido is the past perfect tense (Pretérito Mais-Que-Perfeito Composto). It is formed using the imperfect tense of the auxiliary verb ter (tinhas for the informal 'you') plus the past participle of perder (perdido). We use it to talk about an action that happened further in the past than another past event, meaning 'you had lost' the opportunity before this current conversation.
Why does the sentence use Não fiques instead of Não fica?
When giving a negative command (telling someone not to do something), Portuguese uses the present subjunctive tense. For the informal 'you' (tu), the verb ficar becomes fiques. If this were a positive command ('Get disappointed'), it would use the standard imperative fica.
Why use ficar here instead of estar for a feeling like disappointment?
Why is it com a oportunidade if the English translation says 'about the opportunity'?
In Portuguese, the adjective desapontado usually pairs with the preposition com (with). While in English you might say you are disappointed 'about' or 'at' something, in Portuguese you are generally disappointed 'with' it (com a oportunidade).
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