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Os
Determiner
  gardas
Noun
  están
Auxiliary
  nas
  portas
Noun
non
🙅
Particle
  para
Adposition
  impedir
Verb
  entrar
Verb
senón
Coordinating conjunction
  para
Adposition
  impedir
Verb
  saír
Verb
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The guards are at the gates, not to prevent them from entering, but to prevent them from leaving.
Words and sentences
New
os

New
gardas

second-person singular present indicative of gardar

New
están

third-person plural present indicative of estar

New
nas

🙅
New
non

  1. no, not, not at all
  2. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
  3. no (used to reinforce an affirmation as negation of the alternative - but it can be omitted without changing the meaning)
  4. no (reinforces a mandate in interrogative sentences)

New
entrar

  1. to enter
  2. to begin
  3. tackle (to attempt to take away a ball)

New
impedir

  1. to prevent
  2. to impede, stop
  3. to hinder, block

New
portas

second-person singular present indicative of portar

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