Hostage Negotiations: Hostage: The TV Remote

💬 In European Portuguese, final [e] is usually very weak, so [entregue] sounds closer to (en-TREG). You'll hear this a lot in command forms like [pegue] and [espere] too.

💬 [Nós] is often dropped because the verb already shows who is acting: [fingiremos] already means [we will pretend]. Portuguese does this a lot: [Nós vamos] often becomes just [vamos].

💬 The ending [-emos] is a useful clue for [we] forms in many verbs. Here [fingiremos] = [we will pretend], like [falaremos] = [we will speak].

💬 Portuguese often includes [nós] for emphasis, but it can be left out: [fingiremos] already means [we will pretend]. That means [Nós fingiremos] and [Fingiremos] can both work.

💬 [Não] is nasal, so it doesn't sound like a plain [nao]; think roughly (nowng), with air through the nose. This nasal sound comes up again in words like [pão] and [então].

💬 With [não] before a verb, Portuguese often just means a plain negative: [didn't happen]. English may translate it as [never happened] depending on context, but the word for [never] is usually [nunca].

💬 [Nunca] is the straightforward word for [never]. Compare [não aconteceu] = [it didn't happen] with [nunca aconteceu] = [it never happened].