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Portuguese: Há / Faz interchangeability

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Flarioca
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 Message 9 of 12
08 September 2012 at 1:27am | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
There are more results if you write 10 as a number:)))


Indeed!

10 -> há >> faz > tem
dez -> faz > há >>>>>>> tem

10 >> dez

Anyway, I'm quite aware that this is just a small piece of corpus and doesn't prove much. Maybe other Portuguese speakers will say what they think about the subject.
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 Message 10 of 12
08 September 2012 at 3:57am | IP Logged 
I agree with Flarioca. For me, both have the same meaning.
However, I think I'd say:

- "Eu trabalho aqui há dez anos", and not "Eu trabalho aqui faz dez anos"

but

- "Faz dez anos que eu trabalho aqui", and not "Há dez anos eu trabalho aqui"

I can't explain it, and I still think both are gramatically correct, but I'd say it like that.
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 Message 11 of 12
09 September 2012 at 6:20am | IP Logged 
Thanks everyone.

However, 3 and 7 are my favorite numbers.
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 Message 12 of 12
09 September 2012 at 3:17pm | IP Logged 
Thank you @flarioca and @fabriciocarraro for your native-speaker responses- always appreciated!


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