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"I miss" is not "saudade". During most part of my life I believed that the word "SAUDADE" would the most difficult word to translate to any language. That is not true, there are others more dificult. Anyway,''SAUDADE" is still in the roll of these special words. In english people say "I miss you", this is the closest meaning, but i think the difference is in the fact "saudade" don't be a verb , I feel saudade, it is abstract . ( the noun miss is used for error, mistake. In that case is even more far of saudade. ). I think that is the magic of the languages, each of them has your singularity, if I could creat a new language I certainly would invent a only word to discribe the pleasure of cross the brigde that separate the people, called idiom. when the saudade don't fits in the heart, it overflows through eyes.

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Hey Tiago -- You did well on this, just a few corrections. I especially like the quote at the end! -Ryan

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"I miss" is not "saudade".

During most part of my life I believed that the word "SAUDADE" would be the most difficult word to translate into any language. But that is not true, there are others more difficult. Anyways,''SAUDADE" is still in the roll of among these special words.
In english people say "I miss you", and this is the closest meaning, but I think the difference is in the fact that "saudade" don't be isn't a verb. I feel "saudade", it is abstract. (The noun miss is used for error, by mistake. In that case is even more far of saudade. ).
I think that is the magic of the languages, each of them has your their singularity. If I could create a new language, I certainly would invent a only unique word to describe the pleasure of crossing the bridge that separates people, called idiom (not sure what you mean here?).

When the saudade doesn't fitin the heart, it overflows through eyes.

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