I am wanting to find out which language is 'richer' in that you have more options to use when constructing a sentence.
2007-02-02 11:38:08 · 5 answers · asked by ? 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Portuguese has much more verbs than English.
Although I think that English is a very rich idiom.
Portuguese speaking people please forgive me, but there are much more great writers, poets, journalists and extraordinary books in English than in Portuguese.
So, my conclusion is that Portuguese is much more
"complicated" than English instead of "richer".
By the way: Portuguese is my native language.
2007-02-02 11:47:09 · answer #1 · answered by Vovó (Grandma) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English
2007-02-02 11:41:07 · answer #2 · answered by sax2003dude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, alongside with 'real' verbs - like to be, to have and so - practically any substantive in English or Portuguese may be 'verbed' (I just 'verbed' a new one! LOL). And in English new phrasal verbs are created almostly every day - (although there are something equivalent to them in Portuguese - 'locuções verbais' - a group of previous existing verbs making a new one) .
Do you know the verb 'to tree' - it means 'lead the horse down to the trees' and was used in horse time - before car invention.
2007-02-03 00:22:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak Portuguese but I speak Spanish, which is similar. They have a verb for absolutely everything.
2007-02-02 11:49:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
English by far.
2007-02-02 11:40:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋