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ficar com fome

English translation: to get hungry

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Portuguese term or phrase:ficar com fome
English translation:to get hungry
Entered by: zabrowa

20:27 Dec 19, 2007
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Science - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / linguistic gloss
Portuguese term or phrase: ficar com fome
literal translation preferred... 'to be hungry' ? 'to have hunger'...?
zabrowa
Local time: 00:02
to get hungry
Explanation:
The Buffalo News: Dining: When shoppers get hungry: Eating at the mallHoliday shoppers have a lot of dining options to choose from inside area shopping centers. When shoppers get hungry: Eating at the mall ...
www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/dining/story/213137.html - 52k


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Note added at 15 mins (2007-12-19 20:42:58 GMT)
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You have breakfast and five hours later you get hungry again.
Selected response from:

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 18:02
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +9to get hungry
Marlene Curtis
5 +2to be hungry/ to go hungry
Erik Bry
5to still be hungry / (I am) getting hungry
Paula Vaz-Carreiro
5to be / remain /stay (in a state of being ) hungry
John Kingsmore
4to stay hungry, to go on an empty stomach
Beta Cummins
4to go hungry
Michael Powers (PhD)
4to feel hungry
Paul Dixon


Discussion entries: 1





  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
to be hungry/ to go hungry


Explanation:
HTH

Erik Bry
Local time: 16:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Veronica Manole (X)
25 mins
  -> Thanks Veronica
agree  Fiona Stephenson: This is the most straightforward - simply to be hungry
3 hrs
  -> Thanks
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to stay hungry, to go on an empty stomach


Explanation:
ditto

Beta Cummins
United States
Local time: 18:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to go hungry


Explanation:
Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 18:02
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 35

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Amy Duncan (X): I think that would be "passar fome," Mike.
3 hrs
  -> Good point, Amy - Mike :)
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to still be hungry / (I am) getting hungry


Explanation:
Matt, the sentence "ficar com fome" could be what people say after a meal at which they didn't eat enough as in: "ainda fiquei com fome" (to still be hungry)

It could also be what you say when you are starting to feel hungry, as in: "estou a ficar com fome" (I am getting hungry).

HTH

Paula Vaz-Carreiro
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
to get hungry


Explanation:
The Buffalo News: Dining: When shoppers get hungry: Eating at the mallHoliday shoppers have a lot of dining options to choose from inside area shopping centers. When shoppers get hungry: Eating at the mall ...
www.buffalonews.com/entertainment/dining/story/213137.html - 52k


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Note added at 15 mins (2007-12-19 20:42:58 GMT)
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You have breakfast and five hours later you get hungry again.

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 18:02
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 254
Grading comment
Thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jack_speak
1 hr
  -> Thanks!
agree  Amy Duncan (X)
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Amy!
agree  Katarina Peters
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Katarina!
agree  Fernando Domeniconi
4 hrs
  -> Thanks Fernando!
agree  Rafael Mantovani
11 hrs
  -> Thanks Rafael!
agree  Ilana Cowan: Ilana Cowan
13 hrs
  -> Thanks Ilana!
agree  Christiane Jost
14 hrs
  -> Thanks Christiane!
agree  Cristina Santos
19 hrs
agree  arcosta
20 hrs
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to feel hungry


Explanation:
Also possible, as all the other options are possible as well.

Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 19:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 64
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to be / remain /stay (in a state of being ) hungry


Explanation:
I think this covers all the bases! It simply means to be hungry - the other mutations would be appropriate depending on the context, I disagrre with 'get hungry' because that pertains to active change, whereas ficar does not: ficar highlights a state/condition, not a change/movement/action. Ficar com fome, stricktly speaking can not mean to get hungry, since ficar, by definition, is not an action per se....

John Kingsmore
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Native speaker of: English
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