perto

Sentences
An user
Você   vai   chegar   perto   dele ?

Are you going to get close to him?

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An user
O   peixe
🐟
   no   mar
🌊
   e   o   pescador
🎣
   perto   do   peixe
🐟
 .

The fish in the sea and the fisherman near the fish.

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An user
Um
1
   campo   de   arroz
🍚
   perto de   alguns   edifícios   antigos .

A rice field near some old buildings.

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An user
O   grande   cachorro   preto   está   correndo   na   areia   perto   da   praia
🏖️
 .

The big black dog is running on the sand near the beach.

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An user
Perto   da   montanha
⛰️
   e   da   costa ,  é   a   terra   do  falaguera.

Close to the mountain and the coast, it is the land of the falaguera.

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An user
Caminhava   nas   pontas   dos   pés   para   não
🚫
   acordar   a  parenta,  que   dormia   perto .

He walked on tiptoes so as not to wake his relative, who slept nearby.

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Meaning

close, closely, next (at a little distance)

Concepts

near
close
nearby
about
next
nigh
closely
neighbouring
nearly
pajama
walking
🚶
at hand
by

by the skin of one’s teeth

contiguously
intimately
just
narrowly
Synonyms

próximo
A2
vizinho
B2
de perto
rigorosamente
33k
intimamente
23k

com intimidade

junto
B1

próximo &amp

juntamente
B2
Translations

vicino
proche
cerca
près
nahe
nah
dichtbij
nabij
yakın
propinquus

κοντά

presso
bij
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɛʁ.tu/
Etymology

Cognate with Portuguese
Portuguese
apertar
In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese preto, from earlier *apreto, from apretar (Modern Portuguese apertar), from Late Latin appectorāre, from Latin pectus. Doublet of preto. Cognate of Galician preto.

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