por acaso ele conversando

English translation: I overheard him saying

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Portuguese term or phrase:	por acaso ele conversando
English translation:	I overheard him saying
Entered by:	Michael Powers (PhD)

19:01 Jan 9, 2007

Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Brasil

Portuguese term or phrase: por acaso ele conversando

Aí eu ... E por acaso ele conversando, ele falou que tinha um pessoa em Mami que recebia pra ele.

Michael Powers (PhD) KudoZ activity Questions: 1725 (none open) (59 closed without grading) Answers: 22267 United States
Local time: 14:07

I overheard him saying

Explanation:
I think there's a ouvi missing there. "e por acaso ouvi ele conversando"
...

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Note added at 6 mins (2007-01-09 19:07:45 GMT)
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oops: an "ouvi" missing...

Selected response from:

Irina Dicovsky - MD (X)
Argentina

Grading comment

Obrigado, Mike :)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +6

I overheard him saying

Irina Dicovsky - MD (X)

by chance were talking

Erik Bry

he let it slip

Lilian Magalhães

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

I overheard him saying

Irina Dicovsky - MD (X)
Argentina
Native speaker of:

English,

Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 7

Grading comment

Obrigado, Mike :)

4 mins confidence:

by chance were talking

Explanation:
that's it...may need to rearrage some pronouns and what not to fit, you didn't give the full text "by chance he and I were talking"?

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-01-09 20:06:46 GMT)
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por acaso = by chance
"and by chance, he was talking, he said that he had a person...."

"I overheard" is implicit, not translated; it's not in the question to be translated, "por acaso" is the translation in question!
"I overheard", "John overheard", "Mary overheard"...?? "I was behind the door/on the other line"??? it's not in the text.

Erik Bry
Local time: 12:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

1 day 20 hrs confidence:

he let it slip

Explanation:
definition: to say something that you did not intend to say because you wanted to keep it secret. Pam let slip an interesting bit of gossip yesterday. Stupidly, I let it slip that they'd decided not to give him the job.
I really think that is it.

Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 15:07
Native speaker of:

Portuguese

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