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Mas acalhous de você me aparecer hee

English translation: but then we bumped into each other

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Portuguese term or phrase:Mas acalhous de você me aparecer hee
English translation:but then we bumped into each other
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

17:37 Sep 5, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Slang / Brasil - email
Portuguese term or phrase: Mas acalhous de você me aparecer hee
Nuna [sic.] conversei assim com alguem como estou com você, nunca levei a serlo aquele meu perfil no Manhunt.
Mas acalhou de você me aparecer hee.
Como já disse dançar é minha vida amo isso, atoar está entre minhas paixões ... surfar e malhar também estão e conhecer o mndo é um dos meus sonhos L.A. principalmeante sonho e ir lá fazer cursos e quando vem eu estou sempre la fazendo os cursos.
Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 21:08
but then we bumped into each other
Explanation:
suggestion
Selected response from:

Adriana Maciel
Brazil
Local time: 22:08
Grading comment
Thank you for your help - Mike
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1but you happened to come across
Paula Borges
4 +1but then we bumped into each other
Adriana Maciel
1but then you came along hehe
Lindsay Spratt


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
but then you came along hehe


Explanation:
I don't understand the word 'acalhou' but this seems to me to fit the context.



Lindsay Spratt
France
Local time: 03:08
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Nina_PT: http://www.infopedia.pt/portugues-ingles/calhou Hope this helps. Nina.
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Nina!
neutral  Sara Oliveira: Well, Nina is right "acalhou" is a very coloquial way of saying "calhou".
2 days 2 hrs
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
but you happened to come across


Explanation:
suggestion

the correct spelling would be "calhou"

Paula Borges
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:08
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daniel Tavares: Essa tradução é a que mais preserva o significado original.
1 hr
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
but then we bumped into each other


Explanation:
suggestion

Adriana Maciel
Brazil
Local time: 22:08
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you for your help - Mike

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sara Oliveira: Seems more coloquial, like the whole tone of the message.
2 days 2 hrs
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