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🇧🇷 Brazilian Portuguese · Intermediate Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Before the Ceremony Starts

On the morning of the wedding, Daniel finally tries on his new suit. A tailor has until two to fix the trousers, jacket and sleeve. Describe clothes that are too short, long, loose or tight, arrange alterations, and say before something happens and even though.

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THE STORY

Saturday the twelfth of June, ten in the morning. The ceremony is at five. Daniel keeps last night's promise and tries on the suit he bought in Rio without trying it on. His whole body still hurts from capoeira, the trousers are too short, and Bia is trying very hard not to laugh. A phone call gets them to a tailor in the old town. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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A calça está curta demais!ah KOW-sah ees-TAH KOOR-tah djee-MY-eesThe trousers are too short!
a saiaah SY-ahthe skirt
a mangaah MAHN-gahthe sleeve
A manga está comprida.ah MAHN-gah ees-TAH kohm-PREE-dahThe sleeve is too long.
o cabelooo kah-BEH-loothe hair
compridokohm-PREE-doolong, masculine
uma costureiraOO-mah kohs-too-RAY-raha tailor
mais dois centímetrosMY-ees doys sayn-TCHEE-meh-troostwo more centimetres
o paletóoo pah-leh-TAWthe jacket
a cinturaah seen-TOO-rahthe waist

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