não
Meaning
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- (not-comparable) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
- (Brazil,colloquial,not-comparable) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
- (not-comparable) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
- (not-comparable) not; do not; have not (negates the meaning of the verb or adverb)
- (not-comparable) non- (forms antonyms of adjectives)
- (not-comparable) isn't it? right? (tag question)
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).
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Sentences
Não é suficiente .
This is not enough.