coisa ↔ thing · Portuguese · learnfeliz · Learn new languages for free!

Nós temos que fazer alguma coisa !

We have to do something!

Como

você poderia pensar em tal coisa ?

How could you think of such a thing?

Muito provavelmente você já viu a mesma coisa .

Most likely you have seen the same thing.

Você precisa remover mais alguma coisa da parede antes de se mudar ?

Do you need to remove anything else from the wall before moving?

Isso não
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era promissor ou ter qualquer coisa .

This wasn't promising or having anything.

coisar

(colloquial) A placeholder verb used when the speaker does not remember a specific verb, and whose meaning can be inferred through context.
(colloquial, humorous) to boink, to bonk (have sexual intercourse)

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkoj.zɐ/

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Galician

Cognate with French

In summary

Alteration of cousa, from Old Galician-Portuguese cousa, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”), meaning "thing" in Late and Vulgar Latin. Doublet of causa, a learned borrowing. Compare Galician cousa, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan cosa, and French chose.