No. 1,943 in Portuguese
metrô
Subway or metro (underground urban train system).
In a sentence
Eu pego o metrô para ir ao trabalho todos os dias.
I take the subway to go to work every day.
Here, 'metrô' is used as a noun referring to the means of transportation, the subway or underground.
O metrô estava lotado hoje de manhã.
The subway was crowded this morning.
In this sentence, 'metrô' is again a noun but emphasizes the condition of the subway system at a particular time.
Você prefere viajar de ônibus ou de metrô?
Do you prefer traveling by bus or by subway?
Here 'de metrô' is a phrase using 'metrô' and indicates a preference for the mode of transportation.
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