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How to Say Fabric in Portuguese – False friends

How to Say Fabric in Portuguese – False friends

posted on January 8, 2015

How to Say Fabric in Portuguese

When you live your life in 2 languages, your brain will eventually mix up your languages. I had a funny experience today. I am in Recife visiting my family.  Just got here yesterday 🙂 And today I’ve already mixed up my languages because of some false friends (false cognates).

Do you know how to say fabric in Portuguese? I was buying a t-shirt for my brother and wanted to touch the fabric to see how soft it was. I said:

Posso ver essa camiseta vermelha, por favor? Eu quero sentir a fábrica.

Do you see where this pair of false friends tricked me?

Portuguese –>   English

Tecido            –>   Fabric

Fábrica           –> Factory

Here is what I should have said:

Posso ver essa camiseta vermelha, por favor? Eu quero sentir o tecido.”\

= “May I see this red t-shirt, please? I want to feel the fabric.”

Have you ever mixed up your languages?

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Luciana Lage founded Street Smart Brazil drawing on her passion for Brazilian Portuguese language and culture. Luciana has also taught Portuguese at University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches at the University of San Francisco.

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  1. Marvin Agustin

    January 24, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    I want to learn more Brazilian portuguese.

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  2. Martín Felman

    January 11, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    Olá Luciana e colegas,

    Mais uma vez, agradeço e parabenizo vocês por proporcionarmos engraçados exemplos e experiências pessoais, a respeito dos diferentes idiomas. Quero esclarecer que eu sou um rapaz argentino, docente de língua portuguesa. Aliás, no nosso espanhol, a situação também daria para mais uma confusão entre ‘falsos amigos’. Pois ‘tecido’ aqui é tela, enquanto que a ‘tela’ de vocês, seria ‘pantalla’ ou ‘monitor’, no espanhol rioplatense. Olha só o detalhe!!! Um grande abraço em todos e muito feliz 2015. Martinho da Vila Crespo.

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    • Luciana Lage

      January 11, 2015 at 5:36 pm

      Adorei conhecer os falsos amigos no espanhol! Obrigada por comentar!

      Reply

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