vão
Meaning
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- vain
- vain
- empty (containing nothing)
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vão, from Latin vānus (“empty”). Cognate with Galician van and Spanish vano.
New
ir
- to go (to move to a destination)
- (auxiliary) will; to be going to; forms the future tense
- (auxiliary) to keep on; to go on; ~ on; forms the continuative aspect
- (pronominal) to go; to leave; to depart
- to attend; to go to (to be present in an event)
- (intransitive) to go on until; to last to
- to do; to fare (to have a good or bad result)
- (intransitive) to be doing; formula used in greetings
- (pronominal) to be gone, be on the blink, on the fritz (depleted, destroyed; no longer usable)
- (euphemistic,pronominal) to leave (to die); to depart (to die)
- (intransitive) to go (to begin an action or process)
- (intransitive) to match; to go with (to form a good combination with)
- (intransitive) to like or tolerate
- (intransitive) to follow (to take into account when making choices)
- (intransitive) to range (to encompass values between two given extremes)
- (intransitive) to call (to match the amount of chips in the pot)
- (reflexive) to depart; to leave
- (euphemistic,reflexive) to pass away; to depart; to die
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Sentences
Em breve 🔜 eles vão acabar .
🔜
Soon they will be over.