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se.

third-person singular and plural reflexive pronoun; himself; herself; itself; themselves

2 characters1 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

pron/si/Brazil/sɨ/Portugal
  1. third-person singular and plural reflexive pronoun; himself; herself; itself; themselves

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    Ela se viu no espelho.
  2. first-person singular reflexive pronoun; myself

    Brazil · by-personal-gender · colloquial · feminine · masculine · nonstandard
    Eu acordei e se vesti.
  3. third-person singular and plural reciprocal pronoun; each other; one another

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    Quando eles se conheceram?
  4. first-person plural reciprocal pronoun; each other; one another

    Brazil · by-personal-gender · colloquial · feminine · masculine · nonstandard
    Nós se beijámos.
  5. second-person singular and plural reflexive and reciprocal pronoun, when used with second-person pronouns other than tu and vós; yourself; yourselves

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    E você se diz um professor!
  6. impersonal pronominal verb; oneself

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    Vive-se bem em Belém.
  7. a particle that passivizes the verb without specifying its agent

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    Sempre se usavam roupas elegantes nessas reuniões.
  8. accessory, when it is used to embellish the verb without its omission impairing the understanding or changing the meaning

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    "Vão-se os reis, mas as nações ficam."
  9. particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent

    by-personal-gender · feminine · masculine
    Ele morreu-se.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese sse /se, from Latin sē.

conj/si/Brazil/sɨ/Portugal
  1. if (introduces a condition that may be (or prove to be) either true or false)

    Se for sair, leve um guarda-chuva.
    Só começaremos se nos pagarem.
  2. if (introduces a condition that is counterfactual or hypothetical)

    Se ela não tivesse me falado, não ia saber.
    Se eu fosse você, não iria ali sozinha.
  3. if (introduces a condition that is known to be true)

    Se você tem carro, por que ir a pé?
    O ralo está entupido — e, se o ralo está entupido, a água não flui.
  4. if (introduces a relevance conditional)

    Tenho sobras de bolo se você quiser.
  5. if (when; whenever; every time that)

    Se ele fala, irrita a todos.
    Se chove, cai um toró.
  6. if, whether (used to introduce a noun clause, an indirect question, that functions as the direct object of certain verbs)

    Não sei se ela vem.
    Pergunto-lhe se já tem uma solução para o caso.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese se, from Latin sī (“if”).

pron/si/Brazil/sɨ/Portugal
  1. nonstandard spelling of cê (“you”); u

    Brazil · Internet · alt-of · nonstandard
    se sabe oq aconteceu??
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