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Qual a diferença entre "perhaps" e "maybe"?
Qual a diferença entre "perhaps" e "maybe", já que em português ambas as palavras significam "talvez"?
1 de set de 2010 18:27
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Geralmente nada! Mas nela maioria de casos "perhaps" é mais formal. Aqui estejam mais detalhes de Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English:
per‧haps / pəhæps, præps $ pər-, præps / adverb
1 used to say that something may be true, but you are not sure SYN maybe :
Perhaps she’s next door.
Perhaps it will snow tomorrow.
It won’t take so long next time, perhaps.
‘I don’t think you understand.’ ‘Well, perhaps not .’
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In everyday English, people usually use may or might rather than use perhaps it/she/they etc will :
It might snow tomorrow.
2 used to give your opinion, when you do not want to be too definite SYN maybe :
This is perhaps her finest novel yet.
The industrial revolution was, perhaps, the most important event in history.
3 used to say that a number is only a guess SYN maybe :
The room was large, perhaps 20 feet square.
Perhaps 200 people were there.
4 spoken used to politely ask or suggest something, or say what you are going to do SYN maybe :
I thought perhaps we’d have lunch in the garden.
1 de setembro de 2010
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they are synonyms
perhaps= maybe= possibly
1 de setembro de 2010
1
They basically mean the same in English too. "Maybe" is a bit more common for personal use. Maybe I'll go. Maybe I'll see you tomorrow. "Perhaps" would still be correct in these sentences. There is a common phrase - "maybe. maybe not" which means you don't know or haven't decided on something. "perhaps, perhaps not" is not a phrase which we use.
1 de setembro de 2010
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Alexandre
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