Reading the "desculpe" thread elsewhere (possibly Spanish)

[John Little]

The word desculpe in portugues seems to be used for both "sorry" and "forgive" and I haven't made sense of that. Can anyone help?

[John Little]

Interesting that bing translates "desculpe" in Spanish as "blame" (which fits the thread) but in portugues it means "sorry".... ... And apparently "forgive"

[gmads]

The word desculpe in portugues seems to be used for both "sorry" and "forgive" and I haven't made sense of that. Can anyone help?

Eu acho que é parecido com o espanhol.

• a palavra desculpe (esp: disculpe; ing: I'm sorry) é mais social, ao interagir com as pessoas, por exemplo, na rua
  – desculpe, eu tropecei

• a palavra perdão (esp: perdón; ing: forgiveness) é mais pessoal, quando existe um vínculo afetivo, por exemplo com uma amizade
  – perdão, não quis ferir seus sentimentos

• a frase sinto muito (esp: lo siento mucho; ing: I am very sorry) é usada para mostrar empatia ou quando algo mais sério acontece
  – eu sinto muito sua perda

• a palavra licença (esp: permiso; ing: excuse me) é usada para solicitar permissão
  – licença, deixa eu passar

• a frase com licença (esp: con permiso; ing: excuse me) é usada para chamar a atenção
  – com licença, posso passar?

to take the blame = assumir/aceitar a culpa

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Talvez esses vídeos possam ajudar:

• 8 maneiras diferentes de pedir desculpa em inglês.

• Are you using DESCULPA correctly? | Common Mistakes in Portuguese
  
  

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[John Little]

It's not me. It's duolingo. Can't give an example right now. But when I've put "sorry" I was told it was wrong and it was "forgive. It may have been the phrase:- " she is not going to forgive her husband"

Unless that is a fault on duolingo. The problem is, I don't know enough to argue.

[John Little]

Found this on the old duolingo forum

https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/8521 ... culpo-você

Eu desculpo você = I forgive you

[John Little]

Just had a lesson on desculpar and various conjugations of Ter. (tinha, tive, tivesse, tido) and basically, "desculpar" means to excuse. Só I excuse you and you excuse me. Sorry and forgive.