Olá, yerrrrrr

"Aquele" is used to refer to distant objects = that

"Este" is used to refer to near objects = this

"Esse" can be used to substitute a noun that was already quoted in a conversation.

"Eu tenho um carro......... Esse carro está muito velho"

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what's the point of aquele .. can't i just use esse?

Hi, Arild,

for your question: But Im guessing the two Portuguese sentences mean the same then?

Yes, they have the same meaning. In Portuguese, we would say that the person doesn't work there anymore in a different way.

Faz duas semanas que ue eu trabalhei aqui. (trabalhei = past) I don't work here anymore

Faz duas semanas que eu trabalho aqui (trabalho = present) I still work here.

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Faz duas semanas que trabalhamos aqui.

"It's been two weeks since we've worked here."

Tabalhamos aqui faz duas semanas.

"We've worked here for two weeks."

"Either word order has the same meaning."

The two English sentences does not have the same meaning.

The first means that you havent worked there for two weeks as in its now two weeks since the last time you worked there.

The second means you have been working there the last two weeks.

But Im guessing the two Portuguese sentences mean the same then?

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Faz tempo que eu pego um taxi. Os taxis sim são carros se você viajar para longe mais se voce viajar a uma curta distância

é barato.

Hi Zhuldyzay,

In this case we need to consider the full sentence to understand the meaning:

"Faz tempo que a gente não se vê."

The meaning is as conveyed by the English translation, "It's been a while since we've seen each other.". It means that the two people involved in the conversation don't see one another for a long period of time.👍

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hello

why the frase "a gente não se vê" translated how "we've seen each other".

Hi Richard,

In the phrase "há tempo", "há" can be replaced by "faz" without any problems, for example:

"Há/Faz muito tempo (...)" (long ago, long since)

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Faz tempo. Could this be replaced by ha tempo?

Why does faz have so many meanings

It's been, it, do

As I said in another comment I've been with my brazilian wife for 25 years and lived in Brazil for 6 months and in conversation all I understand is oi, tudo bem and tchau. Done semantica and Rosetta Stone and still struggling. My wife's nephew came to England for one month and knew no English. In one month he could conversate in English. I was going to give up but give it another go