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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2011 January 12

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    Para is movement toward a target. The end point of the movement is the object of the preposition: the destination, the person for whom or result for which something is done or the person or thing to whom or to which something is given. By contrast, por is movement past or through (or because of) something. The object of the preposition is the ...

  3. Portuguese grammar - Wikipedia

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    1 Contractions with para are colloquial only, those with com are colloquial or poetic. The contractions with de, em, por, and a are mandatory in all registers. The grave accent in à / às has phonetic value in Portugal and African countries, but not in Brazil (see Portuguese phonology).

  4. List of email subject abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Not an abbreviation, but the English word "was" (past tense of "to be"). Denoting a subject change prevents confusion on the part of the recipient and avoids accusations of threadjacking in email-based discussion threads. Original subject may furthermore get parenthesised. Example: Subject: Do you know a good babysitter?

  5. Acronym vs. Abbreviation vs. Initialism: What’s the Difference?

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    An acronym is a type of abbreviation that shortens a phrase by combining the first letter (or letters) of each word in the phrase to form a new pronounceable word. Here are some acronym examples:

  6. List of ISO 639 language codes - Wikipedia

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    Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2] Part 1 of the standard, ISO 639-1 defines the two-letter codes, and Part 3 (2007), ISO 639-3, defines the three-letter codes, aiming to cover all known natural languages, largely superseding the ISO 639-2 three-letter code standard.

  7. List of style guide abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.

  8. Comparison of Portuguese and Spanish - Wikipedia

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    In all other cases in Spanish, the stem vowel has been regularized throughout the conjugation and a new third-person ending -o adopted: hice 'I did' vs. hizo 'he did', pude 'I could' vs. pudo 'he could', etc. Portuguese verbs ending in -duzir are regular in the preterite, while their Spanish counterparts in -ducir undergo a consonant change and ...

  9. Spanish prepositions - Wikipedia

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    Prepositions in the Spanish language, like those in other languages, are a set of connecting words (such as con, de or para) that serve to indicate a relationship between a content word (noun, verb, or adjective) and a following noun phrase (or noun, or pronoun), which is known as the object of the preposition.