pai

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Tenho idade para ser seu pai
👨‍👦

.

I'm old enough to be your father.

O pai
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e a mãe
👩‍🍼

eram do Sul .

His father and mother were from the South.

É muito parecido com o pai
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dele .

It's a lot like his father.

Meu pai
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está tão ocupado que não
🚫

tem tempo
⌚

para ler
📖

livros .

My father is so busy that he doesn't have time to read books.

Meu pai
👨‍👦

não
🚫

fuma nem bebe .

My father doesn't smoke or drink.

Eu estava tão impotente quando vi meu pai
👨‍👦

chorando na minha frente .

I was so helpless when I saw my father crying in front of me.

(masculine) father (male who sires a child)
(masculine) one's father
(masculine, plural-normally) parent (either a mother or a father)
(figuratively, masculine) father (the founder of a discipline or science)

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpaj/

Inherited from Latin

Cognate with Galician

Cognate with Aragonese

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese pay < *pade, child-speech forms of padre, from Latin patrem, the accusative of pater (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of padre. Compare mãe (“mother”), which underwent a similar phonetic reduction from its root (Latin mater), and, in addition, was nasalized, perhaps because it was more frequently used than this word. Cognate with Galician pai, Mirandese and Leonese pai and Aragonese pai.