Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Why does the word Carteira mean so many different things in Portuguese?

At first while in Brasil I was taught it meant wallet......then in rosetta stone it teaches me that the same word means desk( shows a picture of a school desk....chair connected to desk) and then in bing translator it comes up as portfolio!





1.) Wallet





2.) desk/chair





3.) Portfolio|||All these things have something in common: they're places where you can keep papers. The chair is not important; it was the desk with an opening lid that matters.|||Yes, that's true. But "portfolio" isn't.





When you're talking about a school desk you use the word "carteira" or "mesa". When you're talking about a wallet you can also use the word "porta-moedas".





Another meaning for the same word is "purse".

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