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O Nome Certo / Perfect Pet Names (português / English)

// Sem que saiba as palavras que estão adequada para nomes de animais de estimação, não pode dizer que domina a língua. 

Trata-se de um domínio especializado das competências linguísticas em que o som, o sentido e a moda são combinados numa palavra só. 

Em baixo está a lista dos nomes escolhidos por pessoas cuja língua materna é o português.  O asterisco significa que conheço mais do que um animal de estimação com esse nome. 

// Can you say you’ve mastered a language if you don’t know which words work as pet names? The naming of pets is a narrow field of language where sound and sense and fashion fuse in a single word. 

Below is list of the pet names picked by people whose first language is Portuguese. Where the name has a more common meaning the translation is in brackets. The asterix means I know of more than one pet with this name. 

Cães / Dogs
Pipoca* (popcorn)
Zai
Tiky
Malu
Kika
Kuri
Suki
Rosie
Rex
Vitória
Noori

Gatos / Cats
Estrela (star)
Biscoito (biscuit)
Nina
Riscas* (stripes)
Naila
Lima
Nube
Pantufa* (slipper)
Olaf
Mimi
Mofli
Kika
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  1. AnonymousMarch 25, 2024 at 12:21 PM

    Useful information. I shall keep it in case a) I should one day acquire a cat and don't wish to name it Tiddles or b) acquire a dog and don't wish to name it Rover.

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  2. Living Not At HomeApril 4, 2024 at 10:06 AM

    Fico feliz que esta blog post possa ser útil para você no futuro. :-)

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