Want to convince everyone you're an authentic gaucho? Gotta learn the lingo! Here's a list of some of the essential phrases you'll need to get by here in the south:
- baa - wow! expression used for really good things or really bad things
- que tri! - how cool!
- barbada - piece of cake! something really easy
- bacana - cool
- guri - boy/guy
- pia - young lad
- (bem) capaz - no way, yah right
- tche - hard to define. sometimes it means you. just add it to the end of sentences and you're good to go.
- assar uma carne - barbeque!
- Fulano - any unspecified person, so-and-so, Joe Shmoe
- Sicrano and Beltrano - Fulano's friends, unspecified person of secondary and terciery importance
- gremista - Gremio fan
- colorado - Inter fan
- rango - food
- pila - nickname for the currency (I think it comes from an old currency they used to use.)
- cafundos - not even the middle of nowhere, but the edges of nowhere
- inho - just had "-inho" to the end of everything and you'll sound more Brazilian
Okay, these have nothing to do with the south, but they're fun nonetheless!
- pochete - fanny pack!
- brega - cheesy
- pantufas - slippers
- exibido - show off
- desastrado - clumsy
- trilhasonora - themesong, soundtrack
- manha - knack
- pedalinho - paddleboat
- defenestrar - to throw something/someone out the window
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