são
Meaning
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- sound, healthy (enjoying health and vigour of body, mind, or spirit)
- sane (mentally sound; possessing a rational mind)
- logically sound
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese são, from Latin sānus, from Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”). Doublet of sano. Cognate with Galician san and Spanish sano.
New
ser
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- (copulative) to be (to have the given quality), especially a quality that is intrinsic or not expected to change, contrasting with estar which denotes a temporary quality
- (transitive) to be (to be an example or type of, or the same as)
- (auxiliary) to be; forms the passive voice
- (intransitive) to be; indicates a point in time
- (intransitive) to be in (to be located in)
- (intransitive) to be (to have as one’s place of origin)
- (intransitive) to be (someone’s); to belong to
- (intransitive) to be for; to be to (to have as its purpose)
- (impersonal) to be supposed to; should; introduces an expected or demanded action
- (transitive) to be; to cost (to be worth a given amount of money)
- (intransitive) to happen; to take place; to occur
- (intransitive) to be against or in favour of
- (intransitive,poetic) to exist; to be
- (impersonal,transitive) used for emphasis
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Eles são 🔉 incontáveis .
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They are countless.
Muitas são 🔉 justificativas e perspectivas .
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Many are justifications and perspectives.
