se fazer passar por você, me chantagear

English translation: prentending to be you, blackmailing me

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Portuguese term or phrase:se fazer passar por você, me chantagear
English translation:prentending to be you, blackmailing me
Entered by: Mario Freitas

22:55 May 14, 2014
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Telecom(munications)
Portuguese term or phrase: se fazer passar por você, me chantagear
This phrase is in a Brazilian television script. The conversation is between two women, in which one woman is accusing the other woman of betraying her trust.
Lee Henwood
United States
Local time: 08:35
prentending to be you, blackmailing me
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 10:35
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Thanks for your help!
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4 +2prentending to be you, blackmailing me
Mario Freitas
4pretend to be you, blackmail me
Gilmar Fernandes
4pretent to be yourself, in order to blackmail me
Teresa Freixinho
4who, all the time was you blackmailing me
Nick Taylor


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
prentending to be you, blackmailing me


Explanation:
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 10:35
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 34
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Thanks for your help!

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agree  Verginia Ophof
19 mins
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agree  Judith Armele
6 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pretend to be you, blackmail me


Explanation:
one way of saying it

Gilmar Fernandes
United States
Local time: 09:35
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Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 60
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pretent to be yourself, in order to blackmail me


Explanation:
Seria bom você descrever a frase toda em que essa expressão aparece. O trechinho que você forneceu é pouco para formularmos uma tradução adequada.

Teresa Freixinho
Brazil
Local time: 10:35
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
who, all the time was you blackmailing me


Explanation:
who, all the time was you blackmailing me

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Note added at 10 hrs (2014-05-15 09:04:10 GMT)
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....while all along it was you who was blackmailing me


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Note added at 15 hrs (2014-05-15 14:33:23 GMT)
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http://scentsoc.org/Volumes/JAE/v1/1/00011006.pdf

Nick Taylor
Local time: 14:35
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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