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| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4948 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 6 18 February 2013 at 3:02am | IP Logged |
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I've found this dictionary in Portuguese that has an excellent layout and is very
nicely detailed. I'm wondering what the following symbols mean: |ê| http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/default.aspx?pal=eleger I see it with -er conjugation verbs. I've also seen this one: |ò...ê| http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/default.aspx?pal=absorver thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 6 18 February 2013 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
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It indicates whether the o and e are open or closed.
in the second example, if you apply the ò...ê to absorver, it'll turn into absòrvêr. of course that just shows the pronunciation. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
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Oh ok, on the infinitive only, now it makes sense because the other conjugation verbs
have not such captions. Thanks, sorry for the dumb question. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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nothing dumb :)
it appears in other cases too: http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/default.aspx?pal=come%C3%A7o 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 5 of 6 18 February 2013 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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Eu absorvo = closed o , hence the notation ô
Ele absorve = open o, hence the notation ò. This alternation is pretty much common in the present. Eu corro = ô Ele corre = ò 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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That's what I thought originally Expugnator, but you see no such caption if you go to
"correr", or any of the other alternating radical verbs that I know ("descer, mexer, converter, the "-ecer" verbs, etc). That is why I asked partly if the caption is just limited to describing the infinitive pronunciation or if it indicated more than that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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