portuguese speakers?

Question

do u kno what this means:

"saudades"

thanks

Answer 1

I'm American, but spent a month in Brasil. Saudades is an emotion with no exact translation. Most online translators equate it to nostalgia, but that's not exactly true.

I asked a Brasilian friend to really explain saudades to me and it's more difficult than it seems. He had a hard time explaining it because you just want to say that saudades is saudades...lol but that doesn't really work.

Saudades is when you look back at something in the past, and it was good, so you miss it and would like to revisit that moment (which is the definition of nostalgia), but saudades also invokes this sense of knowing that things could never be just like that again, and that you have to be happy with the present as well.

It's very difficult to explain, and I'm sure there may be a few people who would disgree with my definition---if you could call it as such, but what I wrote was my take on it.

hope this helps!

Answer 2

The closest thing we can say in English is "nostalgia." But when someone says "tenho saudades tuas (suas)" it would be more along the lines of "I miss you."

Answer 3

homesickness

Answer 4

nostalgia?