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Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese dançar. Compare Kabuverdianu dansá.
Pronunciation
Verb
dançâ
- to dance
Dansá até ficá perna azedo!- Dance your legs off!
- (literally, “Dance until the legs get shaky!”)
Vai passeá! Vai gozá! Vai chocorri! Vai dançá!- Come for a walk! Come and enjoy! Come and flirt! Come and dance!
References
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “azedo”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 297
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “choccorir”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 403