Macanese
Conjugate VerbsFacts
- Language: Macanese
- Alternate names: MACAO CREOLE PORTUGUESE, MACAENSE
- Language code: mzs
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Galician Romance, Macro-Portuguese, Luso-Asian Creole
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 4000
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script:
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Introduction
A small number of elderly women in Macau speak it as mother tongue.
The Verb
Macanese does not inflect verbs: for example, io sam means "I am," and ele sam means "he/she is."
Progressive action (denoted in English by the "-ing" verbal forms) is denoted by a separate particle ta, presumably derived from Portuguese está ("it is"). Completed actions are likewise indicated by the particle ja, presumably from Portuguese já ("right now" or "already").
Verblist
- batê
- buli
- cavâ
- chomâ
- dâ
- fazê
- ficâ
- lugâ
- morê
- nê-bôm
- papiâ
- parcâ
- pôde
- sai
- sam
- suâ
- sâm
- têm
- uví
- vai
- vangueâ
- vêm